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United Stated realm FHIR Profile

Scope and Usage

This profile defines several extensions relevant to the US realm

Extensions to Patient

Extensions to Address

An example Patient showing these extensions can be found here.

This profile was published on Tue, Dec 3, 2013 00:00+1100 as a draft by Fhir Core Team

The id of this profile is us-core

Content 

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<!-- Extensions -->
<extension> <!--  0..1 Context: Resource = Patient -->
 <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/Profile/us-core#race"/>
 <valueCodeableConcept><!--  0..1  CodeableConcept A category of humans sharing history, origin or nationality --> </valueCodeableConcept>
</extension>

<extension> <!--  0..1 Context: Resource = Patient -->
 <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/Profile/us-core#ethnicity"/>
 <valueCodeableConcept><!--  0..1  CodeableConcept A category of human sharing heritage --> </valueCodeableConcept>
</extension>

<extension> <!--  0..1 Context: DataType = Address -->
 <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/Profile/us-core#county"/>
 <valueString value="[string]"/><!-- Name of county -->
</extension>

This profile as XML or JSON.

Terminology Bindings

PathDefinitionTypeReference
[us-core].extensions.race A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing common history, traits, geographical origin or nationality.Incompletehttp://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/Race
[us-core].extensions.ethnicity A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage.Incompletehttp://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/Ethnicity

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Example

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