Contract

The following topic describes information for the Contract resource.

To interact with the REST endpoints in the Contract resource, see Contract.

Overview

The Contract resource is currently limited to representing people who are authorized to view a patient's data. For this reason, contract type, subtype, action, and reason are always set to values related to consent for electronic health record (EHR) sharing. The subject of the contract is the patient. The actors on the contract are the related people who are authorized to view the subject patient's data. An example is a contract authorizing a mother (actor) to view her child's data (subject).

Fields

• Contract ID

• Effective date

• Subject (patient)

• Contract type

• Contract subtype

• Action

• Reason

• Actor (related person)

• Role

Terminology Bindings

• Contract.type

  Description: A list of overall contract codes.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: https://snomed.info/sct

• Contract.subType

  Description: Detailed codes in the above list.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: https://snomed.info/sct

• Contract.action

  Description: Detailed codes for the contract action.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: https://snomed.info/sct

• Contract.actionReason

  Description: Detailed codes for the contract action reason.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: https://snomed.info/sct

• Contract.actor.role

  Description: Detailed codes for the contract actor role.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: https://snomed.info/sct