This template is used to represent a member of the care team. Care team members can include healthcare and community services providers, caregivers, relatives, the patient themselves, etc. A care team member can be another care team or an organization. Care team member attributes include the following: Care team member status on the care team Care team member time (e.g. duration, point-in-time, etc.) on the care team Schedule of the care team member describing when the care team member usually participates on the care team Care team member function on the care team such as the care team member specialty, relationship to the patient, and also role on the care team Care team member name, address, telecom, organization, etc. Care team member information (narrative description about the care team member)

The performer/assignedEntity/id may be set equal to (a pointer to) an id on a performer elsewhere in the document (header or entries) or a new performer can be described here. If the id is pointing to a performer already described elsewhere in the document, assignedEntity/id is sufficient to identify this performer and none of the remaining details of assignedEntity are required to be set. Application Software must be responsible for resolving the identifier back to its original object and then rendering the information in the correct place in the containing section's narrative text.

This id must be a pointer to another Performer.

Templates Used

Although open templates may contain any valid CDA content, the following templates are specifically called out by this template:

Optional EntryRelationships: CareTeamMemberScheduleObservation, NoteActivity