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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-36677

Description property in Organization

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    • Resolution: Persuasive
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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • R4
    • Patient Administration
    • Organization
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      A new description property will be added below the current alias property:

      description  0..1  string

      The definition and requirements can be modeled off of Location.description.

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      A new description property will be added below the current alias property: description   0..1  string The definition and requirements can be modeled off of Location.description.
    • Brian Postlethwaite / Reinhard Egelkraut : 5-0-0
    • Enhancement
    • Non-compatible
    • R5

    Description

      Aside from the narrative text, there isn't any way to document a description of an Organization (either a standard field or an extension). It may be valuable to convey context about the Organization in a way that's not comingled with a bunch of other free text version Organization content.

      Location already has description and HealthcareService has comment.

      We have already defined as an extension here:
      http://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/VhDir/StructureDefinition-org-description.html

      This should be a core property.

      See discussion here

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            Egelkraut Reinhard Egelkraut
            healthbjk Brendan Keeler
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