This page is part of the Vital Records Mortality and Morbidity Reporting FHIR IG (v0.1.0: STU 1 Ballot 1) based on FHIR R3. The current version which supercedes this version is 2.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Funeral Home Director

Funeral Home Director is a profile of the FHIR STU3 PractitionerRole resource. It is used to convey information linking the funeral home to the Mortician that directs, oversees, or is ultimately accountable for the actions of the funeral home.


UML Expression


Structure Definition

id 0..1
profile 1..1 Reference(VRDR Funeral Home Director)
reference 1..1 Reference(VRDR Mortician)
reference 1..1 Reference(VRDR Funeral Home)
coding 1..1 Binding

Element Bindings

Element Name Binding Type Binding Value Fixed Value Code System
code Value Set PractitionerRole
organization Reference VRDR Funeral Home
practitioner Reference VRDR Mortician

Element Table

PractitionerRole ..
PractitionerRole.id 0..1
PractitionerRole.meta 0..1
PractitionerRole.meta.profile Reference(VRDR Funeral Home Director) 1..1
PractitionerRole.practitioner 1..1
PractitionerRole.practitioner.reference Reference(VRDR Mortician) 1..1
PractitionerRole.organization 1..1
PractitionerRole.organization.reference Reference(VRDR Funeral Home) 1..1
PractitionerRole.code 1..1
PractitionerRole.code.coding 1..1



Instance Example

<PractitionerRole>
  <id value="example-funeral-home-director" />
  <meta>
    <profile value="http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/VRDR-Funeral-Home-Director" />
  </meta>
  <practitioner>
    <reference value="example-mortician" />
  </practitioner>
  <organization>
    <reference value="example-funeral-home" />
  </organization>
</PractitionerRole>