New Zealand HPI Implementation Guide, published by Ministry of Health. This is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.9.0). This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7NZ/hpi/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

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This is the Implementation Guide for the HL7® FHIR© interface to the New Zealand HPI - Health Provider Index. It brings together all the artifacts that are necessary to understand and use the FHIR API. O

The HPI (Health Provider Index) is a national registry service that holds information about the providers of healthcare in New Zealand, including the organizations where they work and the facilities that they work from. The key entities that are supported are:

The Person - described by the FHIR Practitioner resource. Facilities where healthcare is provided from. These are represented by Location resources. Organizations such as DHB’s, PHO,s and primary care organizations (Organization) In addition, there is support for registering where a Practitioner works, and in what role - the PractitionerRole resource.

The HPI serves 2 primary purposes:

• A unique identifier for each individual or entity
• An authoritative source for the key information about that entity.

Description of tabs

• Business view: Business context of the HPI
• Use Cases: Expected Use Cases that the HPI supports
• General notes: Common notes about how the API and contents are organized
• API: The specific API features supported by the HPI.
• Profiles: A list of the profiles that are defined by the guide.
• Extensions: A list of the extensions defined by the guide, and extensions that are defined elsewhere.
• Terminology: The ValueSets and CodeSystems defined by the guide.
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• Artifact Index: A page with all artifacts (Logical Models, Profiles, Extensions, Terminology and others) defined in this guide. This page largely duplicates information in the Profiles and Extensions tab.
• Support Links to the FHIR spec and downloads.

Identifiers

This IG makes extensive use of identifiers - such as the Common Person Number (CPN). These are defined in the New Zealand Base IG on the identifiers tab there.

Note that these identifiers are correct as at the time of publishing the Base IG. When new identifiers are added, they will be present in the build version of NZBase (that has not yet been approved for release)

Logical Models

Logical models are part of the design process, and represent the information in the profiles in an easy to understand format. For example extensions are displayed as simple elements, and there is less FHIR-specific detail such as slicing and fixed elements.

It is intended as a way for people who are not familiar with FHIR to understand profile content, and does not represent the ‘on-the-wire’ format delivered through the API. They do, however, have links to terminology resources.

Security

Not addressed by this guide