Extensions

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.

A provider group is an organizational entity representing a set of providers within a practice.

A brand is an organizational grouping of one or more provider groups used to define a consistent patient-facing brand experience for patients interacting with those provider groups. This includes Patient Portal look and feel, automated messaging preferences, etc.

Every brand is identified by a single numeric Brand ID and is associated to a specific practice in athenahealth. It is represented as a FHIR Organization having an Organization.id defined by a-{PID}.Brand-{ID} where {PID} is the Practice ID and {ID} is the Brand ID. This resource-level extension is used to specify the appropriate brand for appropriate athenahealth FHIR resources as a literal reference to a FHIR 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.

A provider group is an organizational entity representing a set of providers within a practice.

A chart sharing group is an organizational entity used to share clinical charts across provider groups that have separate financial data. By default, a practice is configured with one chart sharing group for the entire practice, but additional chart sharing groups can be defined to separate clinical data within a practice as desired.

Every chart sharing group is identified by a single numeric Chart Sharing Group ID and is associated to a specific practice in athenahealth. It is represented as a FHIR Organization having an Organization.id defined by a-{PID}.CSG-{ID} where {PID} is the Practice ID and {ID} is the Chart Sharing Group ID. This resource-level extension is used to specify the appropriate chart sharing group for appropriate athenahealth FHIR resources as a literal reference to a FHIR 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.

A provider group is an organizational entity representing a set of providers within a practice.

A chart sharing group is an organizational entity used to share clinical charts across provider groups.

A department is a location or an organizational entity representing any place of service where a provider in a practice sees patients. A department can be a site of registration such as a medical office or a site where services are rendered such as the emergency room. A department can be used to associate provider groups and/or chart sharing groups in a practice to simplify its grouping of providers and their access to patient clinical data.

Every department is identified by a single numeric Department ID and is associated to a specific practice in athenahealth. It is represented as a FHIR Organization having an Organization.id defined by a-{PID}.Department-{ID} where {PID} is the Practice ID and {ID} is the Department ID. This resource-level extension is used to specify the appropriate department for appropriate athenahealth FHIR resources as a literal reference to a FHIR 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.

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.

A provider group is an organizational entity representing a set of providers within a practice. It allows a practice to group sets of providers, often in the same specialty and/or location, who share all financial information. Within an athenaEnterprise organization, financial and appointment data as well as patient demographic information are segmented using provider groups.

Every provider group is identified by a single numeric Provider Group ID and is associated to a specific practice in athenahealth. It is represented as a FHIR Organization having an Organization.id defined by a-{PID}.PG-{ID} where {PID} is the Practice ID and {ID} is the Provider Group ID. This resource-level extension is used to specify the appropriate provider group for appropriate athenahealth FHIR resources as a literal reference to a FHIR Organization.