Athena Core Implementation Guide
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Extension: athenahealth Practice

Official URL: https://fhir.athena.io/StructureDefinition/ah-practice Version: 2.33.0
Active as of 2024-04-12 Computable Name: AthenaPractice

An Extension used to reference a specific athenahealth practice Organization.

athenahealth provides a multi-tenant SaaS platform on which our customers provide healthcare services to their patients. Tenants are defined as practices within athenahealth. In general, a practice can be a hospital, medical center, clinic, or any other healthcare-related entity. Typically, a practice represents the business entity that provides healthcare services and can be in a single location or spread across multiple locations.

Every practice is identified by a single numeric Practice ID within athenahealth. It is represented as a FHIR Organization having an Organization.id defined by a-1.Practice-{PID} where {PID} is the Practice ID. This resource-level extension is used to specify the appropriate practice (tenant) for all athenahealth FHIR resources as a literal reference to a FHIR Organization.

Context of Use

This extension may be used on the following element(s):

  • Element ID Resource

Background

athenahealth provides a multi-tenant SaaS platform on which our customers provide healthcare services to their patients. Tenants are defined as practices within athenahealth. In general, a practice can be a hospital, medical center, clinic, or any other healthcare-related entity. Typically, a practice represents the business entity that provides healthcare services and can be in a single location or spread across multiple locations.

Practice Identity

Every practice is identified by a single numeric Practice ID within athenahealth. It is represented as a FHIR® Organization having an Organization.id defined by a-1.Practice-{PID} where {PID} is the Practice ID.

This resource-level extension is used to specify the appropriate practice (tenant) for all athenahealth FHIR resources as a literal reference to an Organization. For example:

{
  "id": "...",
  "extension": [
    {
      "url": "https://fhir.athena.io/StructureDefinition/ah-practice",
      "valueReference": {
        "reference": "Organization/a-1.Practice-432"
      }
    }
  ],
}

Usage info

Usage:

Formal Views of Extension Content

Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work.

This structure is derived from Extension

Summary

Simple Extension of type Reference: An Extension used to reference a specific <b>athenahealth</b> <i>practice</i> Organization.

This structure is derived from Extension

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraintsdoco
.. Extension 0..*Extensionathenahealth Practice
... extension 0..0
... url 1..1uri"https://fhir.athena.io/StructureDefinition/ah-practice"
... value[x] 1..1Reference(Organization)Reference to athenahealth Organization for 'practice'

doco Documentation for this format
NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraintsdoco
.. Extension 0..*Extensionathenahealth Practice
... id 0..1stringUnique id for inter-element referencing
... extension 0..0
... url 1..1uri"https://fhir.athena.io/StructureDefinition/ah-practice"

doco Documentation for this format

This structure is derived from Extension

Summary

Simple Extension of type Reference: An Extension used to reference a specific <b>athenahealth</b> <i>practice</i> Organization.

Differential View

This structure is derived from Extension

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraintsdoco
.. Extension 0..*Extensionathenahealth Practice
... extension 0..0
... url 1..1uri"https://fhir.athena.io/StructureDefinition/ah-practice"
... value[x] 1..1Reference(Organization)Reference to athenahealth Organization for 'practice'

doco Documentation for this format

Snapshot View

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraintsdoco
.. Extension 0..*Extensionathenahealth Practice
... id 0..1stringUnique id for inter-element referencing
... extension 0..0
... url 1..1uri"https://fhir.athena.io/StructureDefinition/ah-practice"

doco Documentation for this format

 

Other representations of profile: CSV, Excel, Schematron