Profiles Index

This profile allows a record of a clinical assessment of an allergy or intolerance; a propensity, or a potential risk to an individual, to have an adverse reaction on future exposure to the specified substance, or class of substance.

Where a propensity is identified, to record information or evidence about a reaction event that is characterised by any harmful or undesirable physiological response that is specific to the individual and triggered by exposure of an individual to the identified substance or class of substance.

Substances include but are not limited to a therapeutic substance administered correctly at an appropriate dosage for the individual; food; material derived from plants or animals; or venom from insect stings.

This resource is used to record physical conditions. It SHALL NOT be used to record preferences for or against types of treatment, for example on religious grounds. For such use cases consider the use of the FHIR Consent resource.

This profile allows recording of detailed information about a planned meeting that may be in the future or past. The resource only describes a single meeting, a series of repeating visits would require multiple appointment resources to be created for each instance.

Examples include a scheduled surgery, a follow-up for a clinical visit, a scheduled conference call between clinicians to discuss a case, the reservation of a piece of diagnostic equipment for a particular use, etc. The visit scheduled by an appointment may be in person or remote (by phone, video conference, etc.) All that matters is that the time and usage of one or more individuals, locations and/or pieces of equipment is being fully or partially reserved for a designated period of time.

This profile allows a record of a set of healthcare-related information that is assembled together into a single logical package that provides a single coherent statement of meaning, establishes its own context and that has clinical attestation with regard to who is making the statement.

A Composition defines the structure and narrative content necessary for a document. However, a Composition alone does not constitute a document. Rather, the Composition SHALL be the first entry in a Bundle where Bundle.type=document, and any other resources referenced from Composition SHALL be included as subsequent entries in the Bundle, for example Patient, Practitioner, Encounter, etc.

This profile allows recording of detailed information about a condition, problem, diagnosis, or other event, situation, issue, or clinical concept that has risen to a level of concern.

The condition could be a point in time diagnosis in the context of an encounter, it could be an item on the practitioner’s problem list, or it could be a concern that doesn’t exist on the practitioner’s problem list. Often, a condition is about a clinician's assessment and assertion of a particular aspect of an individual's state of health.

It can be used to record information about a disease/illness identified from the application of clinical reasoning over the pathologic and pathophysiologic findings (diagnosis), or identification of health issues/situations that a practitioner considers harmful, potentially harmful and may be investigated and managed (problem), or other health issue/situation that may require ongoing monitoring and/or management (health issue/concern).

This profile allows exchange of the findings and interpretation of diagnostic tests performed on individuals, groups of individuals, devices and locations and/or specimens derived from these. The report includes clinical context such as requesting and provider information and some mix of atomic results, images, textual and coded interpretations and formatted representation of diagnostic reports.

Note: this profile SHALL NOT be used where a more specific UK Core profile exists.

This profile allows exchange of information about an interaction between an individual and healthcare providers for the purpose of providing healthcare services or assessing the health status of an individual.

This profile allows exchange of information about health events and conditions for a person related to the patient relevant in the context of care.

This profile is used to describe a single healthcare service or category of services that are provided by an organisation at a location, including a virtual location.

This profile is intended to cover the recording of current and historical administration of vaccines to individuals across all healthcare disciplines in all care settings and all regions.

This profile does not support the administration of non-vaccine agents, even those that may have or claim to have immunological effects. While the terms "immunisation" and "vaccination" are not clinically identical, for the purposes of the FHIR profile, the terms are used synonymously.

This profile allows exchange of a flat, possibly ordered collection of records.

The list profile can be used in many places, including allergies, medications, alerts, family history, medical history, etc. This list profile can be used to support individual-specific clinical lists as well as lists that manage workflows such as tracking patients, managing teaching cases, etc.

The list profile supports lists that are homogeneous – consisting of only one type of resource (e.g. Allergy lists) as well as heterogeneous – containing a variety of resources (e.g. a problem list including Condition, AllergyIntolerance, Procedure, etc.).

This profile can be used to exchange details and position information for a physical place where services are provided and resources and participants may be stored, found, contained, or accommodated.

A location includes both incidental locations (a place which is used for healthcare without prior designation or authorisation) and dedicated, formally appointed locations. Locations may be private, public, mobile or fixed and scale from small freezers to full hospital buildings or parking garages.

This profile is primarily used for the identification and definition of a medication for the purposes of prescribing, dispensing, and administering a medication as well as for making statements about medication use.

The purpose of this profile is to describe the event of a patient consuming or otherwise being administered a medication. This may be as simple as swallowing a tablet, or it may be a long-running infusion.

Related resources tie this event to the authorizing prescription, and the specific encounter between patient and health care practitioner.

This profile covers the supply of medications to a patient. Examples include dispensing and pick-up from an outpatient or community pharmacy, dispensing patient-specific medications from inpatient pharmacy to ward, as well as issuing a single dose from ward stock to a patient for consumption. The medication dispense is the result of a pharmacy system responding to a medication order.

An order or request for both supply of the medication and the instructions for administration of the medication to an individual.

This profile covers inpatient medication orders as well as community orders (whether filled by the prescriber or by a pharmacy). It also includes orders for over-the-counter medications (e.g. Aspirin), total parenteral nutrition and diet/ vitamin supplements, and may be used to support the order of medication-related devices.

It is not intended for use in prescribing particular diets, or for ordering non-medication-related items (eyeglasses, supplies, etc).

This profile allows exchange of a record of a medication that is being consumed by a patient.

A MedicationStatement may indicate that the individual may be taking the medication now or has taken the medication in the past or will be taking the medication in the future. The source of this information can be the individual, significant other (such as a family member or spouse), or a clinician.

This profile allows exchange of information of Measurements and simple assertions made about an individual, device or other subject.

Note: this profile SHALL NOT be used where a more specific UK Core profile exists.

This profile allows exchange of a formally or informally recognised grouping of people or organisations formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action. Includes companies, institutions, corporations, departments, community groups, healthcare practice groups, etc.

This profile allows exchange of demographics and other administrative information about an individual receiving care or other health-related services.

This profile allows exchange of information about all individuals who are engaged in the healthcare process and healthcare-related services as part of their formal responsibilities, is used for attribution of activities and responsibilities to these individuals.

This profile allows exchange of a specific set of roles, specialties and services that a practitioner may perform at an organisation for a period of time.

This profile allows exchange of details of current and historical procedures performed on or for an individual. A procedure is an activity that is performed on, with, or for an individual as part of the provision of care. Examples include surgical procedures, diagnostic procedures, endoscopic procedures, biopsies, counselling, physiotherapy, personal support services, adult day care services, non-emergency transportation, home modification, exercise, etc. Procedures may be performed by a healthcare professional, a service provider, a friend or relative or in some cases by themselves.

This profile allows exchange of information about a person that is involved in the care for an individual, but who is not the target of healthcare, nor has a formal responsibility in the care process.

Schedule resources provide a container for time-slots that can be booked using an appointment. It provides the window of time (period) that slots are defined for and what type of appointments can be booked.

The schedule does not provide any information about actual appointments. This separation greatly assists where access to the appointments would not be permitted for security or privacy reasons, while still being able to determine if an appointment might be available.

This profile is a record of a request for a procedure or diagnostic or other service to be planned, proposed, or performed, as distinguished by the ServiceRequest.intent field value, with or on a patient.

Slot resources are used to provide time-slots that can be booked using an appointment. They do not provide any information about appointments that are available, just the time, and optionally what the time can be used for. These are effectively spaces of free/busy time. Slots can also be marked as busy without having appointments associated.

This profile allows the exchange of information about a sample to be used for analysis.

The purpose of this profile is to hold information about a device used to measure blood pressure, such as the type or sphygmomanometer, and cuff size used.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing test result data and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing gathering of a patients ACVPU (level of consciousness) status, and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing gathering and recording the patient's alcohol consumption per day / week

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing average blood pressure monitoring over a specific time period and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing recording of a patient's blood glucose levels.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing an Early Warning Score system such as NEWS2 or NPEWS and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing recording of whether a patient is breathing on their own, or is on oxygen.

The clinical observations within scope of this profile include all patient respiration: Unaided, Oxygen Concentrators, Nasal Cannula, CPAP Devices, Endotracheal Tube, and Mechanical Ventilator.

To provide the minimum expectations for each individual laboratory test.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing gathering and recording the patient's tobacco consumption per day / week. This profile should not be used to record the vaping habits of a patient.

This profile allows exchange of internationally FHIR compliant vital signs information based on measurements and simple assertions made about an individual. Where a more constrained derived profile exists, it should be used instead of this profile.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing blood pressure monitoring and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing measuring and recording body mass index and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing length / height measuring and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing measuring body temperature and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing weight measuring and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing measuring of head circumference and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing heart rate monitoring and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing blood oxygen saturation monitoring and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

To provide implementers with additional support when implementing respiratory rate monitoring and to provide a consistent structure to how the data is presented.

The clinical observations within scope of this profile include all patient respiration: Unaided, Oxygen Concentrators, Nasal Cannula, CPAP Devices, Endotracheal Tube, and Mechanical Ventilator.

To provide implementers additional support for requesting a procedure or diagnostic or other service to be planned, proposed, or performed, with regards to a laboratory observation or a laboratory diagnostic report.