The Care Team includes all the people people, organizations, and organizations care teams who participate or plan to participate in the coordination and delivery of care for a patient. care.

This records Business identifiers associated with assigned to this care team that are defined by business processes and/or used to refer to it when a direct URL reference to the performer or other systems which remain constant as the resource itself is not appropriate. updated and propagates from server to server.

Allows identification of the care team as it is known by various participating systems and in a way that remains consistent across servers.

This is a business identifier, not a resource identifier (see discussion ). It is best practice for the identifier to only appear on a single resource instance, however business practices may occasionally dictate that multiple resource instances with the same identifier can exist - possibly even with different resource types. For example, multiple Patient and a Person resource instance might share the same social insurance number.

Indicates the current state of the care team.

This element is labeled as a modifier because the status contains the code entered-in-error that marks the care team as not currently valid.

Identifies what kind of team. This is to support differentiation between multiple co-existing teams, such as care plan team, episode of care team, longitudinal care team.

Used for filtering what teams(s) are retrieved and displayed to different types of users.

There may be multiple axis of categorization and one team may serve multiple purposes.

A label for human use intended to distinguish like teams. E.g. the "red" "red" vs. "green" "green" trauma teams.

The meaning/purpose of the team is conveyed in CareTeam.category. This element may also convey semantics of the team (e.g. "Red "Red trauma team"), team"), but its primary purpose is to distinguish between identical teams in a human-friendly way. ("Team 18735" ("Team 18735" isn't as friendly . ). friendly.).

Identifies the patient or group whose intended care is handled by the team.

Allows the team to care for a group (e.g. marriage) therapy. Allows for an organization to designate a team such as the PICC line team.

The encounter or episode of Use Group for care that establishes provision to all members of the context group (e.g. group therapy). Use Patient for this care team. provision to an individual patient.

Indicates when the team did (or is intended to) come into effect and end.

Allows tracking what team(s) are in effect at a particular time.

Identifies all people and organizations who are expected to be involved in the care team.

Indicates specific responsibility of an individual within the care team, such as "Primary "Primary care physician", "Trained physician", "Trained social worker counselor", "Caregiver", counselor", "Caregiver", etc.

Roles may sometimes be inferred by type of Practitioner. These are relationships that hold only within the context of the care team. General relationships should be handled as properties of the Patient resource directly. If a participant has multiple roles within the team, then there should be multiple participants.

The specific person or organization who is participating/expected to participate in the care team.

Patient only needs to be listed if they have a role other than "subject "subject of care". care".

Member is optional because some participants may be known only by their role, particularly in draft plans. Using Group is only allowed when the group represents a family or a household and should not represent groups of Practitioners.

The organization of Entity that the practitioner. participant is acting as a proxy of, or an agent of, or in the interest of, or as a representative of.

Practitioners can be associated with multiple organizations. This element indicates Allows specifying which organization they were a practitioner is acting on behalf of. of in context of this care team when practitioners are associated with multiple organizations.

Using Group is only allowed when the group represents a family or a household and should not represent groups of Practitioners.

Indicates when When the specific member or organization did (or is intended to) come into effect and end. generally available within this care team.

To manage members who share the same role, but with different timing. For example, two physical therapists where one is available Monday through Friday whereas the other is available on the weekend.

This is populated while creating / managing the CareTeam to ensure there is coverage when servicing CarePlan activities from the Schedule.

Describes why The basis for the member's role participation in care team exists. team. For example, supporting documentation that establishes legal power of attorney or court ordered guardianship.

Enables care providers a more efficient path to review the participation, if necessary.

Condition(s) that this Describes why the care team addresses. exists.

The organization responsible for the care team.

Allows for multiple organizations to collaboratively manage cross-organizational, longitudinal care plan.

A central contact detail for the care team (that applies to all members).

The ContactPoint.use code of home is not appropriate to use. These contacts are not the contact details of individual care team members.

Comments made about the CareTeam.