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FHIR Practitioner

Overview

Practitioner is a person who is directly or indirectly involved in the provisioning of healthcare. The role of Practitioner in FHIR 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.

Example Usage Scenarios:

The following are example usage scenarios for the this profile:

  • Query for an practitioner by name or NPI
  • Reference from other Resources

Each Practitioner has next elements:

  • an identifier which must support an NPI if available.
  • a name

Each Practitioner supports next elements:

  • Contact information
  • An address

Must support elements, mandatory and optional search parameters

Practitioner must support these elements:

  • Slices for identifier
  • identifier: all slices
    • system
    • value
  • identifier: NPI
  • active
  • name
  • family
  • telecom
  • system
  • value
  • address
  • line
  • city
  • state
  • postalCode
  • country

Practitioner response will be provided in JSON (refers to Capability Statement) format as per FHIR standard R4 version.

The following search parameters and search parameter combinations SHALL be supported (mandatory):

The syntax used to describe the interactions is described here.

SHALL support searching for a practitioner by a string match of any part of name using the name search parameter:

GET [base url]/Practitioner?name=[string]

SHALL support searching a practitioner by an identifier such as an NPI using the identifier search parameter:

GET [base url]/Practitioner?identifier={system|}[code]

The following search parameters and search parameter combinations SHOULD be supported (optional): SHOULD support searching using the _id search parameter:

  GET [base]/Practitioner?_id={system|}[code]

The response to any search operation is always a list of resources in a Bundle or an Operation Outcome.

Practitioner By Name

Search for Practitioner by name.

METHOD GET

GET [base url]/Practitioner?name=[string]

PARAMS

HEADERS

The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during Authentication and Authorization process. Goto Authentication and Authorization for further details.

Header Type Required/Optional Value
Authorization string required 'Bearer'

RESPONSES

Code Description Comment
200 OK The request was processed successfully
400 Bad request Invalid request parameters or FHIR operation outcome resource returned
401 Unauthorized This code indicates that the client request has not been completed because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the requested resource
404 no Route matched with those values The request was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested
500 Internal Server Error The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://demo.kodjin.com/fhir/Practitioner?name=Smith' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'

Practitioner By Identifier

Get Practitioner by identifier.

METHOD GET 

GET [base url]/Practitioner?identifier={system|}[code]

PARAMS

  • [base url] - FHIR base url
  • {system|} - The system for the identifier, e.g. http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-npi
  • {code} - code or id in the system, e.g. 97860456

HEADERS

The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during Authentication and Authorization process. Goto Authentication and Authorization for further details.

Header Type Required/Optional Value
Authorization string required 'Bearer'

RESPONSES

Code Description Comment
200 OK The request was processed successfully
400 Bad request Invalid request parameters or FHIR operation outcome resource returned
401 Unauthorized This code indicates that the client request has not been completed because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the requested resource
404 no Route matched with those values The request was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested
500 Internal Server Error The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://demo.kodjin.com/fhir/Practitioner?identifier=http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-npi|97860456' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'

Practitioner By Id

Get Practitioner by internal resource id.

METHOD GET

GET [base url]/Practitioner/[id]

or

GET [base url]/Practitioner_id=[id]

PARAMS

HEADERS

The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during Authentication and Authorization process. Goto Authentication and Authorization for further details.

Header Type Required/Optional Value
Authorization string required 'Bearer'

RESPONSES

Code Description Comment
200 OK The request was processed successfully
400 Bad request Invalid request parameters or FHIR operation outcome resource returned
401 Unauthorized This code indicates that the client request has not been completed because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the requested resource
404 no Route matched with those values The request was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested
500 Internal Server Error The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://demo.kodjin.com/fhir/Practitioner/97860456' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'