Provenance

This topic describes information for the Provenance resource.

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

Overview

The Provenance resource tracks the source of external information and is used to assess the trustworthiness and reliability of a resource. Sources can be an organization author or organization transmitter. The target field references a resource that this Provenance entry is related to. Entities are Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs) generated through the DocumentReference resource.

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

• US Core Provenance Profile

The following fields are returned if valued:

• Provenance ID

• Target

• Recorded

• Agent

  • Agent type

  • Agent role

  • Agent who

  • Agent on behalf of (only when Agent.who is of type Practitioner)

• Entity role

• Entity what

Terminology Bindings

• Provenance.entity.role

  Description: How the entity was used during the activity.

  Details: Provenance Entity Role

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/provenance-entity-role