Patient

This topic describes information for the Patient resource.

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

Overview

The Patient Resource provides general demographic information about a person receiving health care services from a specific organization. Common demographic fields include patient id, patient name, gender, date of birth, address, phone, primary language and marital status. Additional concepts returned as extensions and not part of the base resource include time of birth, preferred contact, race, ethnicity and birth sex. Cerner Millennium is a patient centric application: thus, many of the other resources will include the patient id in their queries. A person receiving care from multiple organizations may have data available in multiple patient resources in multiple FHIR servers.

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

• US Core Patient Profile

The following fields are returned if valued:

• Patient id
• Patient Identifier
• Active
• Patient name
• Telecom Information (may include phone and email)
• Gender (administrative)
• Extensions including birth time, preferred contact, birth sex, ethnicity, communication preference and race (for more information, see the Extensions section of this topic)
• Date of Birth

• Deceased

  • Boolean
  • dateTime
• Address
• Marital status

• Multiple Birth Information

  • Boolean
  • Integer
• Contact person (guardian, parent or emergency)
• Communication (preferred language)

• Primary Care Providers

  • Reference (Practitioner)

Terminology Bindings

• Patient.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://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 4 Person Identifier (Alias) Types under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/4

• Patient.maritalStatus

  Description: The patient's most recent marital (civil) status.

  • Details: Marital Status Codes

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

  • Details: v3.MaritalStatus

    System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-MaritalStatus

  • Details: v3.NullFlavor

    System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavor

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 38 Marital Status under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/38

• Patient.contact.relationship

  Description: The nature of the relationship between a patient and a contact person for that patient.

  • Details: PatientContactRelationship

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/patient-contactrelationship

  • Details: v2.0131

    System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0131

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 351 Person Relationship Types under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/351

• Patient.communication.language

  Description: The language that may be used to communicate with the patient about their health.

  • Details: CommonLanguages

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/languages

  • Details: IETF Identifying Languages

    System: urn:ietf:bcp:47

  • Details:

    System:

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 36 Languages under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/36

Extensions

• Patient Birth Time

• Patient Preferred Contact

• US Core Race

• US Core Ethnicity

• US Core Birth Sex

• Communication Preference