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.

Not all practitioners have access to the electronic health record (EHR) but can be referenced by other resources to indicate that they are in some way involved in a patient's care.

This resource supports the following HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 6.1.0 profile:

• US Core Practitioner Profile

Note:

The provider's location and contact information can be found with the practitioner.Address and practitioner.Telecom fields.

The following fields are returned if valued:

• Practitioner ID

• Identifier

• Active

• Name

• Telecom

• Address

• Gender

• Qualification

• Is Physician Extension (for more information, see the Extensions section of this topic)

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

• Practitioner.qualification.code

  Description: A coded representation of the qualification.

  Details: Qualification codes

  System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0360|2.7

Extensions

All URLs for custom extensions are defined as https://fhir-ehr.cerner.com/r4/StructureDefinition/{id}

ID	Value[x} Type	Description
is-physician	boolean	Indicates whether the practitioner is a physician.