Organization

This topic describes information for the Organization resource.

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

Overview

The Organization resource describes a grouping of people or business entities relevant to the healthcare process. Organizations include hospitals, employers, insurance companies, physicians' offices, rehabilitation facilities, laboratories, and so on.

The following HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 4.0.0 Profiles are supported by this resource::

• US Core Organization Profile

The following fields are returned if valued:

• Organization Identifier
• Active
• Type
• Name
• Contact Information
• Address

Terminology Bindings

• Organization.identifier.type

  Description: A coded type for the identifier that can be used to determine which identifier to use for a specific purpose.

  • Details: Identifier Type Codes

    System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 334 Organization Alias Type under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR source id>/codeSet/334

• Organization.type

  Description: Indicates the type of Organization.

  • Details: OrganizationType

    System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 278 Organization Type under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR source id>/codeSet/278