RTPBC Patient

This profile constrains the Patient resource for carrying the limited patient information required in the consumer real-time pharmacy benefit check (RTPBC) process.

The profile differs from the US Core Patient profile in certain respects. It does not contain the us-core-race, us-core-ethnicity or us-core-birthsex extensions, and the Patient.communication.language and Patient.telecom elements are not set to Must Support; these variances reflects that clients in the exchange will typically be mobile consumer applications that do not posess this information, and that the information is not pertinent to this use case.

The RTPBC profile further constrains certain US Core and base elements in a manner that is compatible with the the US Core profile (e.g., tightening element cardinality and further limiting allowed terminology).