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title: FHIR Person
tags: fhir-resources
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Person
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###### tags: `fhir-resources` `person`

## Table of Contents
[TOC]

## Definition

## Scope and Usage
The Person resource serves as a linkage resource that may provide a reference set of common demographics for an individual across multiple roles (Patient and Practitioner).

This resource may be used as a centralized register of people that may eventually be involved in healthcare. It consist information that both Patient and Practitioner share together, e.g. name, identity card, etc. It’s recommended that the fields/values in Person are not duplicated in the other resources (e.g. Patient, Practitioner, PractitionerRole).

In addition, for a system which required account to access the system, Person resource can be used to store account username and password for the user to login to the system.

## Resource Content

## Use case
* [Personal Health Record (PHR)](https://hackmd.io/@victoriatjia/FHIRPHR)
* [Electronic Healh Record (EHR)](https://hackmd.io/@victoriatjia/FHIREHR)
* [Patient Portal](https://hackmd.io/@victoriatjia/patientportal_dev)
* Course Management System

## References
* [HL7 FHIR Person](https://www.hl7.org/fhir/person.html)