PractitionerRole currently allows for references to multiple HealthcareServices, meaning that servers can advertise a single PractitionerRole for a practitioner practicing at multiple practices/clinics.
Whilst this is a simplification for servers, it means that clients wishing to display practitioner and practice/clinic information must enumerate the combinations of PractitionerRole and HealthcareService.
This also creates ambiguity about which HealthcareService I am referring the patient to if I am sending a referral to this PractitionerRole.
Agreed Change 2:
The SMTWG meeting of 2 April 2020 agreed to restrict PractitionerRole to reference exactly one HealthcareService to relieve clients from having to enumerate the combinations.
jakubsielewicz
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3 years ago
PractitionerRole currently allows for references to multiple HealthcareServices, meaning that servers can advertise a single PractitionerRole for a practitioner practicing at multiple practices/clinics.
Whilst this is a simplification for servers, it means that clients wishing to display practitioner and practice/clinic information must enumerate the combinations of PractitionerRole and HealthcareService.
This also creates ambiguity about which HealthcareService I am referring the patient to if I am sending a referral to this PractitionerRole.
Agreed Change 2:
The SMTWG meeting of 2 April 2020 agreed to restrict PractitionerRole to reference exactly one HealthcareService to relieve clients from having to enumerate the combinations.
For details see: https://collaborate.digitalhealth.gov.au/display/SMT/Proposed+changes+-+March+2020