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Interested Party

Interested Party is a profile of the FHIR STU3 Organization resource. It is used to convey identifying information ΓÇô name, identifier, postal address - about secondary user of the death certificate document that is a identifier assigning authority for a Death Certificate Reference.


UML Expression


Structure Definition

id 0..1
profile 1..1
identifier 1..1
active 1..1
type 1..1 CodeableConceptBinding
name 1..1
address 1..1
partOf 1..1 Reference(Organization)

Element Bindings

Element Name Binding Type Binding Value Fixed Value Code System
partOf Reference VRDR Interested Party
type Value Set OrganizationType

Element Table

Organization ..
Organization.id 0..1
Organization.meta 0..1
Organization.meta.profile 1..1
Organization.identifier 1..1
Organization.active 1..1
Organization.type CodeableConcept 1..1
Organization.name 1..1
Organization.address 1..1
Organization.partOf Reference(Organization) 1..1



Instance Example

<Organization>
  <id value="example-interested-party" />
  <meta>
    <profile value="http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/VRDR-Interested-Party" />
  </meta>
  <identifier>
    <value value="1234567890" />
  </identifier>
  <active value="true" />
  <type>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://www.hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/organization-type" />
      <code value="dept" />
    </coding>
    <text value="Hospital Department" />
  </type>
  <name value="Example Interested Party" />
  <address>
    <city value="Worcester" />
    <state value="Massachusetts" />
  </address>
</Organization>