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Care Team Members Information

Overview

Care Team Members Information addresses: * CareTeam HL7® FHIR® resource with US Core Profile 6.1.0

The CareTeam includes all the people, teams, and organizations who plan to participate in the coordination and delivery of care for a single patient or a group. This profile meets the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v3 requirements for Care Team Member Information.

Care team members or participants include practitioners (physicians, nurses, technicians, etc.), family members, friends, guardians, and the patient. The care team can be specific to an encounter or to the patient across all encounters (longitudinal).

Each CareTeam Must Have:

  • a patient
  • a participant role for each careteam members
  • a reference to each careteam member which can be:
  • a practitioner or practitioner type (doctor, nurse, therapist)
  • a relative or friend or guardian

Each CareTeam Must Support: - a status code

This resource conforms to USCDI v3 for Care Team Members - refers to US Core CareTeam Profile 6.1.0. CareTeam response will be provided in JSON (refers to Capability Statement) format as per FHIR standard R4 version.

Must support elements, mandatory and optional search parameters

CareTeam must support these elements:

  • status
  • subject
  • participant
  • role
  • member

Each CareTeam Must Have (Mandatory):

  • subject
  • participant
  • role
  • member

The following search parameters and search parameter combinations SHALL be supported:

The syntax used to describe the interactions is described here.

SHALL support searching using the combination of the patient and status search parameters: - including optional support for these _include parameters: - CareTeam:participant:PractitionerRole - CareTeam:participant:Practitioner - CareTeam:participant:Patient - CareTeam:participant:RelatedPerson - including support for OR search on status (e.g.status={system|}[code],{system|}[code],...)

GET [base url]/CareTeam?patient={Type/}[id]&status=active

The following search parameter combinations SHOULD be supported:

SHOULD support searching using the combination of the patient and role search parameters: - including optional support for these _include parameters: - CareTeam:participant:PractitionerRole - CareTeam:participant:Practitioner - CareTeam:participant:Patient - CareTeam:participant:RelatedPerson

GET [base url]/CareTeam?patient={Type/}[id]&role={system|}[code]

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

CareTeam by Patient and Status

Search for CareTeam using combination of patient and status parameters.

METHOD GET

GET [base url]/CareTeam?patient={Type/}[id]&status=active

PARAMS

[base url] - FHIR base url

{Type/} - Reference type for the patient resource. Example: Patient/

[id] - Patient's id

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/CareTeam?patient=Patient/05b87542-b50e-4f19-8a87-2da2e6959bfb&status=active' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'

CareTeam by Patient and Status with Include Parameters

Search for CareTeam with included participant resources.

METHOD GET

GET [base url]/CareTeam?patient={Type/}[id]&status=active&_include=CareTeam:participant:PractitionerRole&_include=CareTeam:participant:Practitioner&_include=CareTeam:participant:Patient&_include=CareTeam:participant:RelatedPerson

PARAMS

[base url] - FHIR base url

{Type/} - Reference type for the patient resource. Example: Patient/

[id] - Patient's id

_include - Include related participant resources in the response bundle

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/CareTeam?patient=Patient/05b87542-b50e-4f19-8a87-2da2e6959bfb&status=active&_include=CareTeam:participant:PractitionerRole&_include=CareTeam:participant:RelatedPerson' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'

CareTeam by Patient and Role

Search for CareTeam using combination of patient and role parameters.

METHOD GET

GET [base url]/CareTeam?patient={Type/}[id]&role={system|}[code]

PARAMS

[base url] - FHIR base url

{Type/} - Reference type for the patient resource. Example: Patient/

[id] - Patient's id

{system|} - Role system. FHIR search token parameter. See Search specification for more information. Example: http://snomed.info/sct|

[code] - Role code. Example: 223366009 (Healthcare professional)

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/CareTeam?patient=Patient/05b87542-b50e-4f19-8a87-2da2e6959bfb&role=http://snomed.info/sct|223366009' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'