UK Core Implementation Guide 1.0.0 - STU1 Pre-release

photo

A photograph relating to the practitioner. This can be included as either:

  • An attachment encoded as base64Binary with a relevant MIME contentType: image/png, image/jpg or image/jpeg preferred.

Table View

Practitioner.id[0]UKCore-Practitioner-Sn-Photo-Example
Practitioner.meta[0].profile[0]https://fhir.hl7.org.uk/StructureDefinition/UKCore-Practitioner
Practitioner.photo[0].contentType[0]image/png
Practitioner.photo[0].data[0]base64Binary

Tree View

Practitioner

XML View

<Practitioner xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
    <id value="UKCore-Practitioner-Sn-Photo-Example" />
    <meta>
        <profile value="https://fhir.hl7.org.uk/StructureDefinition/UKCore-Practitioner" />
    </meta>
    <!--  **************snippet start**************  -->
    <photo>
        <contentType value="image/png" />
        <data value="base64Binary" />
    </photo>
    <!--  **************snippet end**************  -->
</Practitioner>

JSON View

{
    "resourceType": "Practitioner",
    "id": "UKCore-Practitioner-Sn-Photo-Example",
    "meta": {
        "profile":  [
            "https://fhir.hl7.org.uk/StructureDefinition/UKCore-Practitioner"
        ]
    },
    "photo":  [
        {
            "contentType": "image/png",
            "data": "base64Binary"
        }
    ]
}

and/or
  • URL where the data can be found.

If both are used the URL SHALL point to the same data as that encoded in the attachment.


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