Resource Profiles

A contact is a person not being a healthcare professional who is involved in the patient’s care, such as family members, caregivers, mental caretakers, guardians and legal representatives.

In addition to identification information such as the name, address and contact information can also be entered. The relationship to the patient and the role this person has can be entered as well.

The physical location of a healthcare provider. A healthcare provider is an organization that offers and provides medical, paramedic and/or nursing care to patients/clients. Examples include: hospitals, nursing homes, doctor’s offices.

The organizational information of a healthcare provider. A healthcare provider is an organization that offers and provides medical, paramedic and/or nursing care to patients/clients. Examples include: hospitals, nursing homes, doctor’s offices.

A health professional is a person who is authorized to perform actions in the field of individual healthcare.

The types of services and locations that a health professionals are able to provide for a HealthcareProvider.

A laboratory result describes the result of a laboratory analysis. These are specimen-oriented tests as performed in laboratories such as Clinical Chemistry, Serology, Microbiology, etc. In addition to the results of tests with a singular result, this concept can also contain the results of more complex tests with multiple results or a ‘panel’.

Specimen contains all details regarding the specimen on which the test was carried out.

A person who receives medical, psychological, paramedical or nursing care. In some care settings, the term client or participant is used instead of the term patient. Nationality is used as an indication of the country of citizenship. Marital status is a person’s formal position as defined by the Belgium civil code. There is a distinction between marriage and civil union.