Shared Health Specification and Guide Version 5.0

Details for all kinds of technology mediated contact points for a person or organization, including telephone, email, etc.

unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references).

An Extension

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If true, indicates that the contact point is considered to be confidential and should be disclosed only in limited circumstances

Conformance Rule: If the phone number is not to be published, set value to 'true'.

Telecommunications form for contact point - what communications system is required to make use of the contact.

The actual contact point details, in a form that is meaningful to the designated communication system (i.e. phone number or email address).

Need to support legacy numbers that are not in a tightly controlled format.

Conformance Rule: Format as (123) 456-7890 x 11111.

Identifies the purpose for the contact point.

Need to track the way a person uses this contact, so a user can choose which is appropriate for their purpose.

Binding value set defined. (home, mobile, work)

Specifies a preferred order in which to use a set of contacts. Contacts are ranked with lower values coming before higher values.

Note that rank does not necessarily follow the order in which the contacts are represented in the instance.

Time period when the contact point was/is in use.