Stream: implementers
Topic: Mutiple Departments
Mounika (Jan 03 2019 at 12:26):
Hi all,
We have multiple departments like general, surgery and Cardiology etc in an Organization. How to capture these departments? Can anyone suggest.
Ardon Toonstra (Jan 03 2019 at 14:01):
You could use the Organization.partOf to represent the departments in a Organization Resource. With this element you can reference the parent Organization.
Ardon Toonstra (Jan 03 2019 at 14:03):
and Organization.type = dept for example
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 03 2019 at 15:44):
It sort of depends on what you're interested in representing. There are 3 possibilities - Location, Organization and HealthcareService. Location is relevant if you care about the physical place. E.g. "Where's the patient right now?" - "They got transferred to Cardiology an hour ago". Organization is used if you're talking about people and responsibility. E.g. "Dr. Smith is currently assigned to Cardiology". HealthcareService is about what capabilities are offered. E.g. "Good Health Clinic offers Cardiology, Diagnostic Imaging and basic Laboratory"
Eric Haas (Jan 03 2019 at 16:44):
Mounika (Jan 07 2019 at 07:24):
Thank you @Ardon Toonstra , @Lloyd McKenzie , @Eric Haas
In our use case, we want to capture the information using two layers. One Organization is talks about departments which can have the team and that team can include individual Practitioners. Another Organization talks about Group of people and their responsibility.
Organization provides some services, Group provides some services and Practitioner have some services. Each one have their location.
Can anyone suggest me how to capture this.
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Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 07 2019 at 08:11):
Groups can't have responsibility in FHIR - a Group can be acted upon, but can't ever act. If you have a group of people that can have responsibility, that's always an Organization.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 07 2019 at 08:12):
(Group is primarily intended for things like public health and research where you want to define a set of individuals by their characteristics)
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 07 2019 at 08:12):
CareTeam is something else you might find useful
Michael Sauer (Jan 07 2019 at 10:20):
I had a similar problem discussed in the german group. Look at
Michael Sauer (Jan 07 2019 at 10:25):
The tip to use Organizationaffiliation was very useful. I's part of FHIR V4.
http://build.fhir.org/organizationaffiliation.html
Brian Postlethwaite (Jan 08 2019 at 03:11):
Affiliation is primarily intended for external associations, owned relationships like departments are more likely to be part of organizations
Michael Donnelly (Jan 14 2019 at 20:36):
I had to make this to keep track of the relationships for my own sake; it might be useful for this discussion too:
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