National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services (NDH) Implementation Guide
2.0.0 - draft
National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services (NDH) Implementation Guide
2.0.0 - draft
National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services (NDH) Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Patient Administration. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-us-ndh/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
| Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ndh/ValueSet/OrgTypeVS | Version: 2.0.0 | |||
| Standards status: Trial-use | Computable Name: OrgTypeVS | |||
Categories of organizations based on criteria in provider directories.
References
This value set includes codes based on the following rules:
http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-typehttp://hl7.org/fhir/us/ndh/CodeSystem/NdhOrgTypeCSThis value set excludes codes based on the following rules:
http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type version 2.0.1| Code | Display | Definition |
| ntwk | Network | A healthcare provider insurance network |
Expansion performed internally based on:
This value set contains 15 concepts
| Code | System | Display (en-US) | Inactive | Definition | status |
| prov | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Healthcare Provider | An organization that provides healthcare services. | ||
| dept | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Hospital Department | A department or ward within a hospital (Generally is not applicable to top level organizations) | ||
| team | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | 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 | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Government | A political body, often used when including organization records for government bodies such as a Federal Government, State or Local Government. | ||
| ins | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Insurance Company | A company that provides insurance to its subscribers that may include healthcare related policies. | ||
| pay | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | 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 | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Educational Institute | An educational institution that provides education or research facilities. | ||
| reli | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Religious Institution | An organization that is identified as a part of a religious institution. | ||
| crs | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Clinical Research Sponsor | An organization that is identified as a Pharmaceutical/Clinical Research Sponsor. | ||
| cg | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Community Group | An un-incorporated community group. | ||
| bus | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Non-Healthcare Business or Corporation | An organization that is a registered business or corporation but not identified by other types. | ||
| other | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/organization-type | Other | inactive | Other type of organization not already specified. | deprecated |
| fac | http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ndh/CodeSystem/NdhOrgTypeCS | Facility | A physical healthcare facility. | ||
| prvgrp | http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ndh/CodeSystem/NdhOrgTypeCS | Provider Group | A healthcare provider entity | ||
| atyprv | http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ndh/CodeSystem/NdhOrgTypeCS | Atypical Provider | Providers that do not provide healthcare |
Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:
| Level | A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies |
| System | The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere) |
| Code | The code (used as the code in the resource instance) |
| Display | The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application |
| Definition | An explanation of the meaning of the concept |
| Comments | Additional notes about how to use the code |
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