| description | Contact as defined by the Dutch General Practitioners Association (Nederlands Huisartsengenootschap or NHG) based on the Dutch Health and Care Information models (Dutch: Zorginformatiebouwsteen or ZIB) version 1.0.
A contact is any interaction, regardless of the situation, between a patient and the healthcare provider, in which the healthcare provider has primary responsibility for diagnosing, evaluating and treating the patient’s condition and informing the patient. These can be visits, appointments or non face-to-face interactions.
A general practitioner encounter could be used to discuss multiple 'episodes'. Based on the axis op 'episode', one FHIR Encounter (Dutch: 'consult' or 'contactmoment') there will be multiple virtual partial encounters (Dutch: 'deelcontact'). The FHIR Encounter is always about the whole encounter spanning everything that was discussed, regardless of the number of 'episodes'. This profile only deals with past contacts. Future contacts can be documented in the PlannedCareActivity information model. |
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