Patient

Profile of the no-basis-Patient profile resource. Used in the Norwegian Personal Connected Health project to document Patient information.

The vkp-Patient resource can be used both to get updated information from the EHR to the response centre or to update information in the EHR conserning the patient.

Usage of profile attributes

The following table summarizes the fields that are important for use in the VKP APIs when sending information to VKP.

Variable	Description
identifier.FNR	VKP expects a Norwegian "fødselsnummer" as the primary patient identification.
identifier.FHN	Norwegian hjelpenummer for the patient
identifier.DNR	Norwegian D-nummer of the patient. (assigned by Skatteetaten)
identifier.HNR	Norwegian H-nummer of the patient
name	Norwegian human name according to norwegian regulation (lov om personnavn).
nationality	The nationality of the patient, a country code from ISO 3166-1 code system
telecom	Electronic contact information (e.g. a telephone number or an email address) by which the patient may be contacted.
gender	The gender that the patient is considered to have for administration and record keeping purposes: male / female / other / unknown
birthDate	The date of birth for the patient
address	An address expressed using postal conventions (as opposed to GPS or other location definition formats)
maritalStatus	Marital (civil) status of the patient - see code system
photo	Image of the patient
contact	A contact party (e.g. guardian, partner, friend) for the patient
contact.relationship	Type of relationship - see code system
contact.name
contact.telecom
contact.address
communication.language	The language which can be used to communicate with the patient about his or her health - see code system