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Organization Information

Overview

Organization Information addresses: * Organization HL7® FHIR® resource with US Core Profile 6.1.0

A formally or informally recognized grouping of people or organizations formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action. This profile meets the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v3 requirements for Organization Information.

Includes companies, institutions, corporations, departments, community groups, healthcare practice groups, payer/insurer, etc.

Each Organization Must Have:

  • A status of the organization (i.e., whether is still active )
  • A name

Each Organization Must Support:

  • An identifier*
  • A list of contact information
  • An address

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

This resource refers to US Core Organization Profile 6.1.0.

Must support elements, mandatory and optional search parameters

Organization must support these elements:

  • identifier
  • identifier:NPI
  • identifier:CLIA
  • identifier:NAIC
  • system
  • value
  • active
  • name
  • telecom
  • system
  • value
  • address
  • line
  • city
  • state
  • postalCode
  • country

Each Organization Must Have (Mandatory):

  • active
  • name

Identifier Validation Rules:

  • NPI: Must be 10 digits with valid Luhn algorithm check digit
  • CLIA: Must be 10 digits with letter "D" in third position (format: ##D#######)
  • NAIC: Must be exactly 5 digitsgi

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 by organization name using the name search parameter: GET [base url]/Organization?name=[string]

SHALL support searching organization based on text address using the address search parameter: GET [base url]/Organization?address=[string]

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

Organization By Name

Search for Organization by name.

METHOD GET

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

PARAMS

[base url] - FHIR base url

[string] - Organization's name

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

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

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://sandbox.fhir.elationemr.com/fhir/Organization?name=Health' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'

Organization By Address

Search for Organizations by address string.

METHOD GET

GET [base url]/Organization?address=[string]

PARAMS

[base url] - FHIR base url

[string] - Address string

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

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

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://sandbox.fhir.elationemr.com/fhir/Organization?address=Arbor' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'