Base profile: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/practitioner.html
Practitioner Types Supported by EMA
EMA supports two types of practitioners:
- Standard Practitioners:
This includes any staff member within the practice. Typically, you can distinguish between a provider and other staff members by the presence of an NPI (National Provider Identifier) for providers. - Referring Providers:
These can be identified by querying the API with the following parameter:
/Practitioner?type=ref
This query will return all referring providers associated with the practice.
The following attributes are supported on ALL Practitioner calls:
Field Name | Notes |
|---|---|
id | The MMI-specific unique identifier for the practitioner |
identifier | |
active | true|false |
name |
|
telecom | The various contact methods for the Practitioner. |
The following attributes are supported on Referring Practitioner calls:
| Field Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| qualification | The speciality of the provider. |
| address | The address of the Referring Provider |
Common Use Cases:
- Retrieve all staff members for a practice
- Find a specific staff member or provider
- Retrieve the NPI of a provider
- Find a specific referring provider
- Retrieve all referring providers within the practice
The Following Operations are supported:
- Practitioner READ
- Practitioner SEARCH
- Practitioner CREATE