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Resource Person - Content 3.12

Status: Approved resource. Draft for comment by Patient Administration Working Group

A person who is involved in the healthcare process.

The resource name as it appears in a RESTful URL is /person/

Ballot note: The Person resource is the minimal set of information to carry about a person regardless of their role: the type of activity that a person is playing (patient, next of kin, provider, employees etc). As such is it is suitable for Person registries that keep track of Persons regardless of their role. The Person resource is referred to for person details for a variety of resources that represent a particular role, such as SubjectofCare (a.k.a Patient), Provider, and Agent (a person acting on behalf of an organisation). Very few attributes are common to any role and so the Person resource is kept lean. Most attributes are expected to be found in these other resources. (e.g: guardian on SubjectofCare, contact parties on SubjectOfCare & Provider, and multiple birth flag on SubjectofCare).

Resource Content 3.12.1

UML Image

<Person xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
 <identifier><!-- 0..* HumanId A Human identifier for this person --></identifier>
 <name><!-- 0..* HumanName A name associated with the person --></name>
 <telecom><!-- 0..* Contact A contact detail for the person --></telecom>
 <gender><!-- 0..1 Coding Administrative Gender --></gender>
 <birthDate><!-- 0..1 dateTime The birth date for the person --></birthDate>
 <deceased><!-- 0..1 boolean Indicates if the Person is deceased or not --></deceased>
 <address><!-- 0..* Address One or more addresses for the person --></address>
 <maritalStatus><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Marital (civil) status of the person --></maritalStatus>
 <language>  <!-- 0..* The person's  proficiency level of a language -->
  <language><!-- 1..1 CodeableConcept Language with optional region --></language>
  <mode><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Language method of expression --></mode>
  <proficiencyLevel><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Proficiency level of the language --></proficiencyLevel>
  <preference><!-- 0..1 boolean Language preference indicator --></preference>
 </language>
 <extension><!-- 0..* Extension  See Extensions  --></extension>
 <text><!-- 1..1 Narrative Text summary of resource (for human interpretation) --></text>
</Person>

Alternate definitions: Schema/Schematron, RDF (to do), XML, XMI (to do), Resource Profile

Terminology Bindings

Path	Details	Strength
Person.gender	The gender of a person used for administrative purposes (see http://hl7.org/fhir/administrative-gender for values)	complete/required
Person.maritalStatus	The domestic partnership status of a person (see http://hl7.org/fhir/marital-status for values)	extensible/preferred
Person.language.language	see ISO 639-3	complete/required
Person.language.mode	A value representing the person's method of expression of this language (see http://hl7.org/fhir/language-ability-mode for values)	complete/required
Person.language.proficiencyLevel	A code that describes how well the language is spoken (see http://hl7.org/fhir/language-ability-proficiency for values)	complete/required

Path

Details

Strength

Person.gender

The gender of a person used for administrative purposes (see http://hl7.org/fhir/administrative-gender for values)

complete/required

Person.maritalStatus

The domestic partnership status of a person (see http://hl7.org/fhir/marital-status for values)

extensible/preferred

Person.language.language

see ISO 639-3

complete/required

Person.language.mode

A value representing the person's method of expression of this language (see http://hl7.org/fhir/language-ability-mode for values)

complete/required

Person.language.proficiencyLevel

A code that describes how well the language is spoken (see http://hl7.org/fhir/language-ability-proficiency for values)

complete/required

Notes: 3.12.2

The Person resource does justice to Person registries that keep track of Persons regardless of their role. The Person resource is also a primary resource to point to for people acting in a particular role such as SubjectofCare, Provider, and Agent. Very few attributes are specific to any role and so Person is kept lean. Most attributes are expected to be tied to the role the Person plays rather than the Person himself. Examples of that are Guardian (SubjectofCare), ContactParty (SubjectOfCare, Provider), and multipleBirthInd (SubjectofCare)

Search Parameters 3.12.3

Search Parameters for RESTful searches. The standard parameters also apply. See Searching for more information.

$page : integer	Starting offset of the first record to return in the search set	single
$count : integer	Number of return records requested. The server is not bound to conform	single
$id : token	The logical resource id associated with the resource (must be supported by all servers)	single
identifier : qtoken	A patient Identifier	union
name : string	a portion of name in any name part	union
phonetic : string	a portion of name using some kind of phonetic matching algorithm	union
telecom : string	the value in any kind of contact	union
address : string	an address in any kind of address/part	union
gender : qtoken	gender of the person	single
language : qtoken	language code (irrespective of use value)	union
birthdate : date	date equal to the patient's date of birth	single
birthdate-before : date	date before or equal to the patient's date of birth	single
birthdate-after : date	date after or equal to the patient's date of birth	single

(See Searching).

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