Use the Practitioner resource to obtain information about healthcare providers managed by Health Gorilla.

FHIR Resource: Practitioner https://www.hl7.org/fhir/practitioner.html

Supported Attributes

Field Name	Comments
identifier	NPI UID
active
birthDate
name
telecom
address

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Practitioner

FHIR Operations

The following operations are currently supported:

1. Read

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Practitioner/{ID}	GET	Retrieve provider by ID

2. Search

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Practitioner?[parameter={value}]	GET	Retrieve providers by the specified search criteria

Search Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
Identifier	Token	A practitioner's Identifier.
name	String
role	Token	The only value supported: doctor (Required)
specialty	Token
near	Token	The coordinates expressed as [latitude]:[longitude] (using the WGS84 datum, see notes) to find locations near to.
near-distance	Quantity	Miles (Required)
address-state	String
address-city	String
address-postalcode	String
_offset	Number
_count	Number	Page size
_include		Use to include related PractitionerRole into result Bundle. https://www.hl7.org/fhir/STU3/search.html#include

Available values for include directive:

Include	Criteria	Resource
_revinclude	PractitionerRole:practitioner	PractitionerRole

Examples

2.1 Search practitioner by NPI number:

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Practitioner?identifier=http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-npi|1234567893

2.2 Search practitioner by Health Gorilla assigned identifier:

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Practitioner?identifier=https://www.healthgorilla.com|f3c88f5b53910aba83b224f4

2.3 Search cardiologists by name within 10 miles around Sunnyvale, CA. PractitionerRole entries that refer to Practitioner records are also included into result bundle:

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Practitioner?
name=Gregory House
&role=doctor
&speciality=Cardiologist
&address-city=Sunnyvale
&address-state=CA
&near-distance=10
&_revinclude=PractitionerRole:practitioner
&_count=20

2.4 Search providers by name within 1000 miles in CA:

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Practitioner?
name=Gregory House
&role=doctor
&address-state=CA
&near-distance=1000

2.5 Search providers by name within 5 miles around the specified point:

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Practitioner?
name=Gregory House
&role=doctor
&near=37.3910024:-122.0765676
&near-distance=5