HL7 Terminology (THO)
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CodeSystem: Organization type

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type Version: 2.0.1
Active as of 2025-04-10 Maturity Level: 1 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: OrganizationType
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.1128

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This example value set defines a set of codes that can be used to indicate a type of organization.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

Generated Narrative: CodeSystem organization-type

Last updated: 2024-04-24 00:00:00+0000

Profile: Shareable CodeSystem

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
Status status http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status code A code that indicates the status of the concept. Typical values are active, experimental, deprecated, and retired

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinitionStatus
prov Healthcare Provider An organization that provides healthcare services.
dept Hospital Department A department or ward within a hospital (Generally is not applicable to top level organizations)
team Organizational team An organizational team is usually a grouping of practitioners that perform a specific function within an organization (which could be a top level organization, or a department).
govt Government A political body, often used when including organization records for government bodies such as a Federal Government, State or Local Government.
ins Insurance Company A company that provides insurance to its subscribers that may include healthcare related policies.
pay Payer A company, charity, or governmental organization, which processes claims and/or issues payments to providers on behalf of patients or groups of patients.
edu Educational Institute An educational institution that provides education or research facilities.
reli Religious Institution An organization that is identified as a part of a religious institution.
crs Clinical Research Sponsor An organization that is identified as a Pharmaceutical/Clinical Research Sponsor.
cg Community Group An un-incorporated community group.
bus Non-Healthcare Business or Corporation An organization that is a registered business or corporation but not identified by other types.
ntwk Network A healthcare provider insurance network
other Other Other type of organization not already specified. deprecated

History

DateActionCustodianAuthorComment
2025-01-20revisePAMing DunajickAdd values to the THO Organization Type Code System; up-507
2024-02-29revisePAJosh MandelInclude additional concepts in Organization Types; up-516
2023-11-14reviseTSMGMarc DuteauAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2020-10-14reviseVocabulary WGGrahame GrieveReset Version after migration to UTG
2020-05-06reviseVocabulary WGTed KleinMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.