Confirmation

The Patient resources contain demographics and other administrative information about the individual who is the subject of the referral.

The resource involves booking one (or a series) of appointment(s) between the patient and the practitioner(s) for a specific date time. The encounter may be a scheduled referral or an econsult.

PractitionerRole describes the types of services that practitioners provide for an organization at specific location(s). The PractitionerRole resource can be used in multiple contexts including - In a Clinical system as a point of reference rather than an event such as a patient's preferred general practitioner (at a specific clinic)

A task resource describes an activity that can be performed and tracks the state of completion of that activity. It is a representation that an activity should be or has been initiated and eventually represents the successful or unsuccessful completion of that activity.

A reference to a document of any kind for any purpose. While the term “document” implies a more narrow focus for this resource this document encompasses any serialized object with a mime-type it includes formal patient-centric documents (CDA) clinical notes scanned paper non-patient specific documents like policy text as well as a photo video or audio recording acquired or used in healthcare. The DocumentReference resource provides metadata about the document so that the document can be discovered and managed. The actual content may be inline base64 encoded data or provided by direct reference.

Communication resource is used to achieve the bi-directional communication between two systems. The Communication resource can be used to ask questions regarding a referral request a referral be updated with missing information or request additional information not covered by the specific referral dataset.

QuestionnaireResponse resource is used to capture additional information notes record question answers etc. about the referral. This resource will be referrenced via ServiceRequest resource.

Practitioner covers all individuals who are engaged in the healthcare process and healthcare-related services as part of their formal responsibilities and this Resource is used for attribution of activities and responsibilities to these individuals. Practitioners include (but are not limited to) physicians specialists physician assistants nurses social workers professional homecare providers and receptionists handling patient registration.

Details and position information for a physical place where services are provided and resources and participants may be stored found contained or accommodated. Used to help identify the location of the patient provider (requester and service provider) and where the service will be provided. May be used in future to conduct analytics and help requesters find best services in closer proximity to the patient.

Organization profile describes the details of the organization where the referral originated from.