Practitioner

This topic describes information for the Practitioner resource.

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

Overview

The Practitioner resource provides information about a person formally involved in the care of a patient on behalf of a healthcare facility. Practitioners include but are not limited to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, technologists, and social workers.

The following fields are returned if valued:

• Practitioner ID

• Identifier

• Active

• Name

• Contact

• Address

• Gender

Terminology Bindings

• Practitioner.identifier.type

  Description: The type used to determine which identifier to use for a specific purpose.

  • Details: Identifier Type Codes

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/identifier-type

  • Details: v2 Identifier Type

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/v2/0203