Encounter is an interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s) to provide healthcare service(s) or assess a patient’s health status. There are many types of encounters (such as ambulatory, inpatient, home visits, emergency and the like) which is the reason why the resource encompasses the lifecycle from pre-admission to the actual encounter (for ambulatory encounters) and admission, stay and discharge (for inpatient encounters). Encounter is primarily used to record information about the actual activities that occurred, where Appointment is used to record planned activities.

An association between a patient and an organization/healthcare provider(s) over a period of time. The managing organization assumes a level of responsibility for the patient during this time. EpisodeOfCare acts as a container resource that links a series of Encounters together for problems/issues (specific condition).

HealthcareService resource describes the details of a single healthcare service or category of services that are provided by an organization at a location. The location of the services could be virtual, as with telemedicine services.

Location resource gives details and position information of a physical place where services are provided, and also where resources and participants may be stored, found, contained or accomodated.

Observation represents one of the most important and central units of healthcare data exchange - different kinds of observations varying from clinical findings and measurements to social history. The resource is designed to cover a wide variety of use cases and as a result, at its simplest, a resource instance can consist of only a code, value, and status flag. The granularity of instance highly depends on the use case, therefore the minimal viable data considered is a decision that needs to be made during profiling process.

Organization is a resource intended for documenting information related to an entity that has been formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action. ‘Organization’ as such has a narrower definition in context of EEBase - in order to be conformant to EEBaseOrganization profile, an organization MUST be registered as a business. Yet, Organization could be used for documenting contact information and/or providing support for other resources that need to reference organizations.

Patient is a FHIR resource intended for documenting demographical and/or administrative information about the individual on the receiving end of healthcare services. In context of Estonian healthcare data exchange, the patient MUST be identifiable by Person Identity System.

This profile defines the EE Base constraints and extensions on the Practitioner resource for the minimal set of data to query and retrieve practitioner information. The profile defines a structure that localises core concepts, including identifiers and terminology, for use in an Estonian context for practitioner.

PractitionerRole resource allows exchange of specific set of roles, specialties and services that a practitioner may perform at an organisation for a period of time. EEBase PractitionerRole profile defines the constraints and extensions for the minimal set of data to query and retrieve information for practitioner role in Estonian context.

This profile builds on RelatedPerson resource. The profile allows information exchange about a person that is involved in the care for a patient, but who is not the target of healthcare, nor has a formal responsibility in the care process.

An address expressed using postal conventions (as opposed to GPS or other location definition formats). This datatype may be used to convey addresses for use in delivering mail as well as for visiting locations which might not be valid for mail delivery. There are a variety of postal address formats defined around the world. EEBase Address resource is developed in cooperation with Estonian Land Board. EEBase Address resource describes both Estonian and foreign addresses.

EEBase ADS AdrId extension

EEBase ADS Oid extension

EEBase Address Notice

This extension applies to the date and dateTime data types and is used to represent the accuracy of the associated date.

EEBase EHAK extension

The method that the patient arrived at the facility.

Patient age measure and unit

Indicate that this address is meant to be the ‘official’ address for that person. What an ‘official’ address is depends on the country. This extension allows to specify if this address is or it is not the official address, or to indicate that this is the official address for that country

Jane Doe is a wife of John Doe

Episode of care care example

Healthcare Service Example

Location of the Emergency Department at ITK

Inpatient encounter of Mart Mets

Foreigner with minimal dataset.

Estonian citizen

Mari Meri is an emergency contact of Mart Mets

Organization ITK

Organization Rakvere Hospital

Organization Synlab

Organization Tervisekassa

Practitioner D98765

Practitioner D99876

Practitioner N98765

Practitioner N99876

PractitionerRole D98765

PractitionerRole D99876

PractitionerRole N98765

PractitionerRole N99876

Patient that can not be recognized during admission

Blood Pressure example