Using the FHIR Resource 'PractitionerRole': Obtaining and Creating Healthcare Provider Information
PractitionerRole - Health Gorilla API Developer Portal
Summary
This article details how to use the FHIR resource 'PractitionerRole' via the Health Gorilla API. This resource allows users to obtain information about known healthcare providers and create new user accounts within an organization.
Details
This document serves as a developer guide focusing on the FHIR STU3 compliant 'PractitionerRole' resource. This resource is used both for retrieving information about healthcare providers (practitioners) and for creating new user accounts (staff, doctors, etc.) within an organization. The supported operations include 'Read' (retrieving by ID) and 'Search' (filtering by criteria). Search parameters are extensive, allowing filtering by NPI identifier, organization, location, role, and specialty. The API also supports the `_include` function to embed related resources like Practitioner or Organization into the result bundle. Furthermore, the 'Create' operation enables the creation of new Health Gorilla users with various roles (Doctor, Staff, Nurse). This process requires setting additional attributes, such as initial password and login credentials, using FHIR Extensions. Overall, this guide provides specific technical specifications for managing provider information in a standardized manner for healthcare IT systems to ensure interoperability.
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