Class: Individual_healthcare_practitioner

Description of: Individual_healthcare_practitioner

Class steward is Patient Administration
Interested committees Orders/Observation
A person responsible for the provision of healthcare services to an individual, or involved in the provision of healthcare related services. This class is not a healthcare_provider_organization. For example, a physician, midwife, nurse practitioner.

Attribute definitions for: Individual_healthcare_practitioner

fellowship_field_cd ::

The fellowship field of a physician.

OpenIssue: Need example codes.

graduate_school_nm ::

The name of the graduate school attended by the healthcare practitioner.

graduation_dttm ::

The date the practitioner graduated from graduate school.

position_cd ::

A code indicating the position of a healthcare practitioner in an healthcare organization (e.g., head of department, trainee, hospital consultant, . . .).

OpenIssue: The example codes make this sound like a multi-axial description. Could not a hospital consultant also be a head of department. Review with vocabulary facilitator.

practitioner_type_cd ::

A code indicating the type of healthcare professional (e.g., medical doctor, nurse, pharmacist, laboratory worker, . . .).

primary_care_ind ::

An indication that the healthcare practitioner is a primary care provider.

residency_field_cd ::

The physician residency code.

OpenIssue: Need example codes for this attribute.

slot_size_increment_qty ::

Duration for a single schedulable unit in a schedule for a resource.

Rationale: Provides visibility into scheduling details.

OpenIssue: Does this match any V2.3 field?

Association definitions for: Individual_healthcare_practitioner

belongs_to (0,n) :: Individual_healthcare_practitioner_pool :: contains (1,n)

is_requested_by (0,n) :: Individual_healthcare_practitioner_request :: requests (1,1)

is_scheduled_by (0,n) :: Individual_healthcare_practitioner_slot :: is_scheduleable_unit_for (1,1)

participates_as (0,n) :: Encounter_practitioner :: is_participant_for (1,1)

is_the_primary_provider_for (0,n) :: Patient :: has_a_primary_provider (0,1)

provides (0,n) :: Certification_additional_opinion :: is_provided_by (1,1)

is_role_of (1,1) :: Person :: takes_on_role_of (0,1)