# Suppression Indicator for Visibility - Agency Common Components FHIR Implementation Guide v26.0.0

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# Agency Common Components FHIR Implementation Guide

26.0.0 - Trial

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* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**FHIR Artefacts**](artifacts.md)
* **Suppression Indicator for Visibility**

## Extension: Suppression Indicator for Visibility 

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/suppressed | *Version*:26.0.0 |
| Active as of 2026-06-16 | *Computable Name*:Suppressed |
| **Usage:**Jurisdiction: Australia | |
| **Copyright/Legal**: Copyright © 2026 Australian Digital Health Agency - All rights reserved. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |

Indicates whether the parent resource should be hidden from display in the Provider Directory. Contains coded information about the actor who initiated the suppression and optional control flags.

This extension addresses the business requirement to control visibility of provider directory entries, enabling management of which practitioner roles, organizations, healthcare services, locations, or endpoints should be hidden from public directory searches while maintaining data in the system.

**Context of Use**

**Usage info**

**Usages:**

* Examples for this Extension: [Suppressed Org](Organization-organization-suppressed-example.md) and [PractitionerRole/practitionerrole-suppressed-example](PractitionerRole-practitionerrole-suppressed-example.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/resource/au.gov.digitalhealth.cc|current/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition-suppressed.json)

### Formal Views of Extension Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-suppressed.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-suppressed.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-suppressed.sch) 

#### Terminology Bindings

#### Constraints

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IG © 2026+ [Australian Digital Health Agency](https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/). Package au.gov.digitalhealth.cc#26.0.0 based on [FHIR 4.0.1](http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/). Generated 2026-06-16

Links: [Table of Contents](toc.md) | [QA Report](qa.md) | [Version History](https://fhir.digitalhealth.gov.au/dh/history.html) | [Report an issue or propose a change](mailto:help@digitalhealth.gov.au) 

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## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "suppressed",
  "url" : "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/suppressed",
  "version" : "26.0.0",
  "name" : "Suppressed",
  "title" : "Suppression Indicator for Visibility",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2026-06-16T03:55:57+00:00",
  "publisher" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/"
    },
    {
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "help@digitalhealth.gov.au"
    }]
  },
  {
    "name" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "mailto:help@digitalhealth.gov.au",
      "use" : "work"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "Indicates whether the parent resource should be hidden from display in the Provider Directory. Contains coded information about the actor who initiated the suppression and optional control flags.",
  "useContext" : [{
    "code" : {
      "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/usage-context-type",
      "code" : "jurisdiction"
    },
    "valueCodeableConcept" : {
      "coding" : [{
        "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
        "code" : "AU",
        "display" : "Australia"
      }]
    }
  }],
  "purpose" : "This extension addresses the business requirement to control visibility of provider directory entries, enabling management of which practitioner roles, organizations, healthcare services, locations, or endpoints should be hidden from public directory searches while maintaining data in the system.",
  "copyright" : "Copyright © 2026 Australian Digital Health Agency - All rights reserved. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "complex-type",
  "abstract" : false,
  "context" : [{
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "PractitionerRole"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "Organization"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "Practitioner"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "HealthcareService"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "Location"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "Endpoint"
  }],
  "type" : "Extension",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension|4.0.1",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Extension",
      "path" : "Extension",
      "short" : "Hide Resource in Directory",
      "definition" : "When present, indicates that the parent resource is suppressed. Contains information about who initiated the suppression and optional control flags for suppression behavior.",
      "max" : "1"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension",
      "path" : "Extension.extension",
      "min" : 1
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:suppressedBy",
      "path" : "Extension.extension",
      "sliceName" : "suppressedBy",
      "short" : "Who initiated the suppression",
      "definition" : "Identifies the actor who initiated the suppression request (e.g., practitioner, organisation).",
      "min" : 1,
      "max" : "1",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:suppressedBy.extension",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.extension",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:suppressedBy.url",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "suppressedBy"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:suppressedBy.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.value[x]",
      "min" : 1,
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "CodeableConcept"
      }],
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:suppressedBy.value[x].coding",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.value[x].coding",
      "min" : 1,
      "max" : "2",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/v2/fhir/ValueSet?ui:filter=new-patient-availability"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:includeSelf",
      "path" : "Extension.extension",
      "sliceName" : "includeSelf",
      "short" : "Controls Organization self-suppression",
      "definition" : "When true, this Organization and all child resources (HealthcareService, Location, PractitionerRole, Endpoint) are suppressed via cascade. When false, this Organization remains visible while child resources are suppressed via cascade. Only applies to Organization resources.",
      "min" : 0,
      "max" : "1",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:includeSelf.extension",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.extension",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:includeSelf.url",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "includeSelf"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension:includeSelf.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.extension.value[x]",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "boolean"
      }],
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.url",
      "path" : "Extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/suppressed"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "max" : "0"
    }]
  }
}

```
