FHIR R4 OrganizationAffiliation Library

Overview

This asset is a component of MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare.

MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare enables healthcare providers to unlock critical patient data to build a patient 360 within Salesforce Health Cloud, faster and easier than ever before. The solution includes pre-built APIs, connectors, integration templates, and prescriptive end-to-end reference architecture to bring patient demographics information and COVID-19 test results from any EHR into Health Cloud using HL7 V2 or FHIR standards.

The solution also provides a library of United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR R4 resources to help healthcare developers adhere to interoperability needs and jumpstart the development of healthcare digital transformation initiatives.

Use case covered

A relationship between 2 organizations over a period of time, where the entities are separate business entities. The relationship can optionally include details of locations/services from the participating organization.

The OrganizationAffiliation enables defining non-hierarchical relationships between organizations. For example:

• One organization may provide services to another organization

  e.g. An agency service providing casual staff, a radiology service, a diagnostic lab, catering services, community care services etc.

• Two or more organizations may form a partnership or joint venture

• An organization may be a member of an association, but not owned by it

  e.g. a hospital is a member the American Hospital Association, a hospital is a member of a health information exchange network

This library is used by FHIR R4 OrganizationAffiliation API.

More information about FHIR R4 OrganizationAffiliation specification can be found here.