A formally or informally recognized grouping of people or organizations formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action. Includes companies, institutions, corporations, departments, community groups, healthcare practice groups, etc.

Identifier for the organization that is used to identify the organization across multiple disparate systems.

Organizations are known by a variety of ids. Some institutions maintain several, and most collect identifiers for exchange with other organizations concerning the organization.

Whether the organization's record is still in active use.

Need a flag to indicate a record is no longer to be used and should generally be hidden for the user in the UI.

Default is true. This active flag is not intended to be used to mark an organizations organization as temporarily closed or under construction. Instead the Location(s) within the Organization should have the suspended status. If further details of the reason for the suspension are required, then an extension on this element should be used.

This element is labeled as a modifier because it may be used to mark that the resource was created in error.

The kind(s) of organization that this is.

Need to be able to track the kind of organization that this is - different organization types have different uses.

Organizations can be corporations, wards, sections, clinical teams, government departments, etc. Note that code is generally a classifier of the type of organization; in many applications, codes are used to identity a particular organization (say, ward) as opposed to another of the same type - these are identifiers, not codes

When considering if multiple types are appropriate, you should evaluate if child organizations would be a more appropriate use of the concept, as different types likely are in different sub-areas of the organization. This is most likely to be used where type values have orthogonal values, such as a religious, academic and medical center.

We expect that some jurisdictions will profile this optionality to be a single cardinality.

A name associated with the organization.

Need to use the name as the label of the organization.

If the name of an organization changes, consider putting the old name in the alias column so that it can still be located through searches.

A list of alternate of alternate names that the organization is known as, or was known as in the past.

Over time locations and organizations go through many changes and can be known by different names.

For searching knowing previous names that the organization was known by can be very useful.

There are no dates associated with the alias/historic names, as this is not intended to track when names were used, but to assist in searching so that older names can still result in identifying the organization.

A contact detail for Description of the organization. organization, which helps provide additional general context on the organization to ensure that the correct organization is selected.

Human contact for the organization. Humans need additional information to verify a correct Organization has been selected.

An address for The contact details of communication devices available relevant to the organization. specific Organization. This can include addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, mobile numbers, email addresses and web sites.

May need Need to keep track of the organization's addresses for contacting, billing or reporting requirements. assigned contact points within bigger organization.

Organization may have multiple addresses with different uses or applicable periods. The address/telecom use code home is 'home' are not to be used. Note that these contacts are not the contact details of people who provide the service (that would be through PractitionerRole), these are official contacts for the Organization itself for specific purposes. E.g. Mailing Addresses, Billing Addresses, Contact numbers for Booking or Billing Enquiries, general web address, web address for online bookings etc.

The organization of which this organization forms a part.

Need to be able to track the hierarchy of organizations within an organization.

Contact Technical endpoints providing access to services operated for the organization for a certain purpose. organization.

Need Organizations have multiple systems that provide various services and need to keep track of assigned contact points within bigger organization. be able to define the technical connection details for how to connect to them, and for what purpose.

Where multiple contacts for Note that an organization might have endpoints listed in any of the same purpose are provided there is a standard extension referenced directory resources, not just at the top Organization level (i.e. sub Organizations, Locations, HealthcareServices, PractitionerRoles)

The Endpoint.managingOrganization property indicates the organization that can be used to determine which one is supporting/managing the preferred contact to use. technical endpoint.

Indicates The official certifications, accreditations, training, designations and licenses that authorize and/or otherwise endorse the provision of care by the organization.

For example, an approval to provide a purpose for which type of services issued by a certifying body (such as the contact can be reached. US Joint Commission) to an organization.

An identifier allocated to this qualification for this organization.

Need to distinguish between multiple contact persons. Often, specific identities are assigned for the qualification by the assigning organization.

A name associated with Coded representation of the contact. qualification.

A contact detail (e.g. Qualifications often take time to attain and might be tracked during this time, and completed qualifications might not always be valid. This status concept has some overlap with period and both should be considered together. Refer to the descriptions of the codes for how the period should be interpreted.

If a telephone number qualification is revoked or an email address) by which otherwise cancelled, then the party may period is likely to be contacted. ignored, and might be related to when it was active.

Visiting or postal addresses for Period during which the contact. qualification is valid.

May need to keep track of a contact party's address Qualifications are often for contacting, billing or reporting requirements. a limited period of time, and can be revoked.

Technical endpoints providing access to services operated for Organization that regulates and issues the organization. qualification.