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Patient Administration   Work Group | Maturity Level: 1 | Informative | Use Context: Not Intended for Production use | 
This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.
Summary
| Defining URL: | http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/organization-type | 
| Name: | OrganizationType | 
| Definition: | This example value set defines a set of codes that can be used to indicate a type of organization. | 
| Committee: | Patient Administration   Work Group | 
| OID: | 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.403 (for OID based terminology systems) | 
| Source Resource | XML / JSON | 
This value set is used in the following places:
This value set includes codes from the following code systems:
http://hl7.org/fhir/organization-type
This expansion generated 19 Apr 2017
This value set contains 11 concepts
Expansion based on http://hl7.org/fhir/organization-type version 3.0.2
All codes from system http://hl7.org/fhir/organization-type
| Code | Display | Definition | 
| prov | Healthcare Provider | An organization that provides healthcare services. | 
| dept | Hospital Department | A department or ward within a hospital (Generally is not applicable to top level organizations) | 
| team | Organizational team | An organizational team is usually a grouping of practitioners that perform a specific function within an organization (which could be a top level organization, or a department). | 
| govt | Government | A political body, often used when including organization records for government bodies such as a Federal Government, State or Local Government. | 
| ins | Insurance Company | A company that provides insurance to its subscribers that may include healthcare related policies. | 
| edu | Educational Institute | An educational institution that provides education or research facilities. | 
| reli | Religious Institution | An organization that is identified as a part of a religious institution. | 
| crs | Clinical Research Sponsor | An organization that is identified as a Pharmaceutical/Clinical Research Sponsor. | 
| cg | Community Group | An un-incorporated community group. | 
| bus | Non-Healthcare Business or Corporation | An organization that is a registered business or corporation but not identified by other types. | 
| other | Other | Other type of organization not already specified. | 
See the full registry of value sets defined as part of FHIR.
Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:
| Level | A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies | 
| Source | The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere) | 
| Code | The code (used as the code in the resource instance). If the code is in italics, this indicates that the code is not selectable ('Abstract') | 
| Display | The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application | 
| Definition | An explanation of the meaning of the concept | 
| Comments | Additional notes about how to use the code |