Others titles
- FHIR Person Resource
- Electronic Health Records Exchange Through FHIR
Keywords
- FHIR
- HL7
- Medical Terminology
- Processes Data
- Processes Information
- Processes Documentation
- Health Information Exchange
- Electronic Health Records
- FHIR Smart
- Smart on FHIR
Person

The Person resource serves as a linkage resource that may provide a reference set of common demographics for an individual (human or animal) across multiple roles. This linkage can be direct to role-specific Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) resources (Patient, Practitioner and Related Person) residing on the same or possibly distinct FHIR systems/applications, or indirectly through the use of business identifiers.
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Description
The Person resource may be used in many situations/contexts, including:
– A set of demographics that can be used to coordinate the maintenance of this de-normalized information across practitioners, patients and/or related persons e.g. link known resources of the different types together within a system
– A state/network based Master Person Index e.g. A National Identifier Index or a Network membership/subscriber list
– A central register that links patient resources from multiple servers, indicating they all correspond to the same individual e.g. Within a large organization with many systems to be able to link the various records, without having to modify the source information with external links
– A support for access monitoring software that is able to assert what practitioner, patient and related person records correspond to the same human being to assist in detecting improper querying e.g. asserting that a Patient A is the same individual as a Related Person B who is related to Patient C, who is also Practitioner D. As such, monitoring for Practitioner D’s accesses to Patient A’s records should be carefully scrutinized.
– Local record(s) on a mobile device listing links to remote server patient resources e.g. A mobile phone application storing references to the hospitals they have access to.
About this Dataset
Data Info
Date Created | 2018-09-20 |
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Last Modified | 2023-03-26 |
Version | 5.0.0 |
Update Frequency |
Annual |
Temporal Coverage |
N/A |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
Source | John Snow Labs; Health Level Seven International; |
Source License URL | |
Source License Requirements |
N/A |
Source Citation |
N/A |
Keywords | FHIR, HL7, Medical Terminology, Processes Data, Processes Information, Processes Documentation, Health Information Exchange, Electronic Health Records, FHIR Smart, Smart on FHIR |
Other Titles | FHIR Person Resource, Electronic Health Records Exchange Through FHIR |
Data Fields
Name | Description | Type | Constraints |
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Concept_Name | Name of the concept in the FHIR structure | string | required : 1 |
Computer_Ready_Name | A Computer-ready name (e.g. a token) that identifies the structure - suitable for code generation. Note that this name (and other names relevant for code generation, including element & slice names, codes etc) may collide with reserved words in the relevant target language, and code generators will need to handle this. | string | - |
Type | The type the structure describes. | string | - |
Dollar_Ref | The Dollar_Ref ($ref) string value contains a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) which identifies the location of the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) value being referenced. | string | - |
Description | A free text natural language description of the structure and its use | string | - |
Items | The value of the keyword should be an object or an array of objects. If the keyword value is an object, then for the data array to be valid each item of the array should be valid according to the schema in this value. | string | - |
Enum | The enum is used to restrict a value to a fixed set of values. It must be an array with at least one element, where each element is unique. | string | - |
Required | The value of the keyword should be an array of unique strings. The data object to be valid should contain all properties with names equal to the elements in the keyword value. | string | - |
Const | The value of this keyword can be anything. The data is valid if it is deeply equal to the value of the keyword. | string | - |
Data Preview
Concept Name | Computer Ready Name | Type | Dollar Ref | Description | Items | Enum | Required | Const |
Person | resourceType | This is a Person resource | Person | |||||
Person | id | #/definitions/id | The logical id of the resource | |||||
Person | meta | #/definitions/Meta | The metadata about the resource. This is content that is maintained by the infrastructure. Changes to the content might not always be associated with version changes to the resource. | |||||
Person | implicitRules | #/definitions/uri | A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed | |||||
Person | _implicitRules | #/definitions/Element | Extensions for implicitRules | |||||
Person | language | #/definitions/code | The base language in which the resource is written. | |||||
Person | _language | #/definitions/Element | Extensions for language | |||||
Person | text | #/definitions/Narrative | A human-readable narrative that contains a summary of the resource and can be used to represent the content of the resource to a human. The narrative need not encode all the structured data | |||||
Person | contained | array | These resources do not have an independent existence apart from the resource that contains them - they cannot be identified independently | |||||
Person | extension | array | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource. To make the use of extensions safe and managable |