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, payer/insurer, 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.

This active flag is not intended to be used to mark an 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 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.

The use code 'home' is not Humans need additional information to be used. Note that these contacts are not the contact details of people who are employed by or represent the organization, but official contacts for the organization itself. 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 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.

Where Organizations have multiple contacts for the same purpose are provided there is a standard extension systems that can provide various services and need to be used able to determine which one is define the preferred contact technical connection details for how to use. connect to them, and for what purpose.

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 be able to track Often, specific identities are assigned for the person qualification by name. the assigning organization.

A contact detail (e.g. a telephone number or an email address) by which Coded representation of the party may be contacted. qualification.

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.