CarePlan

This topic describes information for the CarePlan resource.

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

Overview

The R4 CarePlan resource can be used to represent care plans.

The CarePlan resource describes the intentions of how one or more practitioners plan to deliver care to a specific patient. Care plans are used in a variety of areas and scopes ranging from encounter or visit specific to cross-visits. Care plans are used to group activities, goals and/or practitioners to create context. Care plans are intended to be specific to the patient. It is possible for a planned activity to stand alone without a care plan such as a scheduled appointment.

This resource supports the following HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 4.0.0 profile:

• US Core CarePlan Profile

The following fields are returned if valued:

• CarePlan Id
• Status
• Intent (plan)
• Category (assess-plan)
• Title
• Subject (Patient Only)
• Encounter
• Effective Period

• Author

  • Reference (Practitioner)

Terminology Bindings

• CarePlan.status

  Description: Indicates whether the plan is currently being acted upon, represents future intentions or is now a historical record.

  Details: Request Status

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/request-status

• CarePlan.intent

  Description: Codes indicating the degree of authority/intentionality associated with a care plan. Currently "plan" is the only status binding which is supported.

  Details: Request Intent

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/codesystem-request-intent.html

• CarePlan.category

  Description: Identifies what "kind" of plan this is to support differentiation between multiple co-existing plans; e.g. "Home health", "psychiatric", "asthma", "disease management", etc. Currently "assess-plan" is the only category binding which is supported.

  Details: Request Category

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/CodeSystem/careplan-category