CareTeam

This topic describes information for the CareTeam resource.

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

Overview

The R4 CareTeam resource represents a patient's care team members. Care team members or participants include practitioners (physicians, nurses, technicians, and so on), family members, friends, guardians, and the patient. The care team can be specific to an encounter or to the patient across all encounters (longitudinal).

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

• US Core CareTeam Profile

The following fields are returned if valued:

• Care Team ID
• Status (Active)
• Category (Longitudinal or Encounter)
• Name (Encounter-Level Only)

• Subject

  • Reference (Patient)
• Encounter (Encounter-Level Only)

• Participant

  • Role
  • Member
    • Reference (Practitioner | RelatedPerson)
  • Period

Terminology Bindings

• CareTeam.status

  Description: The current state of the care team.

  Details: Request Status

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

• CareTeam.category

  Description: The type of team. This element supports differentiation between multiple coexisting teams, such as a care plan team, episode of care team, and longitudinal care team.

  Details: Request Category

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

• CareTeam.participant.role

  Description: The role of a participant in the care team.

  Details: Participant Role

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/r4/valueset-participant-role.html