Path | Short | Definition | Comments |
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A person that is related to a patient, but who is not a direct target of care | Information about a person that is involved in the care for a patient, but who is not the target of healthcare, nor has a formal responsibility in the care process. | ||
identifier | A human identifier for this person | Identifier for a person within a particular scope. | |
active | Whether this related person's record is in active use | Whether this related person record is in active use. | This element is labeled as a modifier because it may be used to mark that the resource was created in error. |
patient | The patient this person is related to | The patient this person is related to. | |
relationship | The nature of the relationship | The nature of the relationship between a patient and the related person. | |
name | A name associated with the person | A name associated with the person. | |
telecom | A contact detail for the person | A contact detail for the person, e.g. a telephone number or an email address. | Person may have multiple ways to be contacted with different uses or applicable periods. May need to have options for contacting the person urgently, and also to help with identification. |
gender | male | female | other | unknown | Administrative Gender - the gender that the person is considered to have for administration and record keeping purposes. | |
birthDate | The date on which the related person was born | The date on which the related person was born. | |
address | Address where the related person can be contacted or visited | Address where the related person can be contacted or visited. | |
photo | Image of the person | Image of the person. | |
period | Period of time that this relationship is considered valid | The period of time during which this relationship is or was active. If there are no dates defined, then the interval is unknown. | |
communication | A language which may be used to communicate with about the patient's health | A language which may be used to communicate with about the patient's health. | If no language is specified, this *implies* that the default local language is spoken. If you need to convey proficiency for multiple modes, then you need multiple RelatedPerson.Communication associations. If the RelatedPerson does not speak the default local language, then the Interpreter Required Standard can be used to explicitly declare that an interpreter is required. |
communication.id | Unique id for inter-element referencing | Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces. | |
communication.extension | Additional content defined by implementations | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
communication.modifierExtension | Extensions that cannot be ignored even if unrecognized | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element and that modifies the understanding of the element in which it is contained and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions. Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself). | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
communication.language | The language which can be used to communicate with the patient about his or her health | The ISO-639-1 alpha 2 code in lower case for the language, optionally followed by a hyphen and the ISO-3166-1 alpha 2 code for the region in upper case; e.g. "en" for English, or "en-US" for American English versus "en-EN" for England English. | The structure aa-BB with this exact casing is one the most widely used notations for locale. However not all systems actually code this but instead have it as free text. Hence CodeableConcept instead of code as the data type. |
communication.preferred | Language preference indicator | Indicates whether or not the patient prefers this language (over other languages he masters up a certain level). | This language is specifically identified for communicating healthcare information. |
RelatedPersons typically have a personal or non-healthcare-specific professional relationship to the patient. A RelatedPerson resource is primarily used for attribution of information, since RelatedPersons are often a source of information about the patient. For keeping information about people for contact purposes for a patient, use a Patient's Contact element. Some individuals may serve as both a Patient's Contact and a Related Person.
Example RelatedPersons are:
The primary distinction between a Practitioner and a RelatedPerson is based on whether:
A standard extension animalSpecies can be used to indicate the species of a service animal.
active | Indicates if the related person record is active | RelatedPerson.active |
identifier | An Identifier of the RelatedPerson | RelatedPerson.identifier |
name | A server defined search that may match any of the string fields in the HumanName, including family, give, prefix, suffix, suffix, and/or text | RelatedPerson.name |
patient | The patient this related person is related to | RelatedPerson.patient |
relationship | The relationship between the patient and the relatedperson | RelatedPerson.relationship |