A person who is directly or indirectly involved in the provisioning of healthcare.

Need to track doctors, staff, locums etc. for both healthcare practitioners, funders, etc.

Note that a cab driver no longer fits the bill. You probably would be interested in the organization rather than the individual?

An identifier that applies to this person in this role.

Often, specific identities are assigned for the agent.

Whether this practitioner's record is in active use.

Need to be able to mark a practitioner record as not to be used because it was created in error.

Default is true.

If the practitioner is not in use by one organization, then it should mark the period on the PractitonerRole with an end date (even if they are active) as they may be active in another role.

A name The name(s) associated with the person. practitioner.

Contact persons need to be identified by name, but it The name(s) that a Practitioner is uncommon to need details about multiple other names for known by. Where there are multiple, the name that person. the practitioner is usually known as should be used in the display.

The selection of the use property should ensure that there is a single usual name specified, and others use the nickname (alias), old, or other values as appropriate.

In general select the value to be used in the ResourceReference.display based on this:

1. There is more than 1 name
2. Use = usual
3. Period is current to the date of the usage
4. Use = official
5. Other order as decided by internal business rules.

A contact detail for the practitioner, e.g. a telephone number or an email address.

Need to know how to reach a practitioner. practitioner independent to any roles the practitioner may have.

Person may have multiple ways to be contacted with different uses or applicable periods. May need to have options for contacting the person urgently, and also to help with identification. identification

These typically will have home numbers, or mobile numbers that are not role specific.

The postal address where Address(es) of the practitioner can be found or visited or to which mail can be delivered. that are not role specific (typically home address). Work addresses are not typically entered in this property as they are usually role dependent.

Need to keep track where The home/mailing address of the practitioner can found during work or is often required for directing mail. employee administration purposes, and also for some rostering services where the start point (practitioners home) can be used in calculations.

The PractitionerRole does not have an address value on it, as it is expected that the location property be used for this purpose (which has an address).

Administrative Gender - the gender that the person is considered to have for administration and record keeping purposes.

Needed to address the person correctly.

The date of birth for the practitioner.

Needed for identification.

Image of the person.

Many EHR systems have the capability to capture an image of patients and personnel. Fits with newer social media usage too.

Qualifications obtained by training and certification.

An identifier that applies to this person's qualification in this role.

Often, specific identities are assigned for the qualification.

Coded representation of the qualification.

Period during which the qualification is valid.

Qualifications are often for a limited period of time, and can be revoked.

Organization that regulates and issues the qualification.

A language the practitioner is able to use in patient communication.

Knowing which language a practitioner speaks can help in facilitating communication with patients.

The structure aa-BB with this exact casing is one the most widely used notations for locale. However not all systems actually code this but instead have it as free text. Hence CodeableConcept instead of code as the data type.