EIM High Level Model Home Page Index of Entities

PTY Parties

Covers the identification of persons and organisations.

Parties diagram

Entity Index

Characteristic	Characteristic Value	Client Associated Person
Communication Address	Group Member	Health Insurer
Health Service Establishment	Organisational Unit	Other Communication Address
Other Organisational Unit	Person	Person Identifier
Postal Address	Professional Body	Regulatory Authority
Trust

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Characteristic

Any characteristic by which CLIENTs or the population in general may be classified.

The Department of Health stores these characteristics chiefly for use in Population Health analysis.

Examples include:
- impairment extent
- residential setting
- industry code

Business Rules

Each CHARACTERISTIC -

may occur as one or more CHARACTERISTIC VALUEs
may be used to define one or more POPULATION GROUPs
may be counted in one or more RESPONSE COUNTs
may be utilised in one or more SURVEYs

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Characteristic Value

An attribute of a PERSON, CLIENT or ORGANISATIONAL UNIT that is of interest to the WA Department of Health.

Business Rules

Each CHARACTERISTIC VALUE -

must be defined by only one CHARACTERISTIC
must be an attribute of only one CLIENT or must be an attribute of only one ORGANISATIONAL UNIT or must be an attribute of only one PERSON

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Client Associated Person

A PERSON who is associated with a CLIENT in some way. This association may be a relationship that is familial (eg. Father) or non-familial (eg. Lawyer).

Business Rules

Each CLIENT ASSOCIATED PERSON -

must be an associate of only one CLIENT
must be identified as only one PERSON

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Communication Address

An address by which communication with a party may be established. COMMUNICATION ADDRESSes include postal addresses as well as electronic addresses such as telephone number, pager, fax and electronic mail address.

COMMUNICATION ADDRESSes may be qualified with a time parameter to indicate the times at which they are applicable.

Business Rules

Each COMMUNICATION ADDRESS is a POSTAL ADDRESS or an OTHER COMMUNICATION ADDRESS.

Each COMMUNICATION ADDRESS -

must be a means of contacting only one HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SITE or must be a means of contacting only one ORGANISATIONAL UNIT or must be a means of contacting only one PERSON or must be a means of contacting only one POSITION

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Group Member

A PERSON, who may or may not be identified as an individual, or an ORGANISATIONAL UNIT that is part of a GROUP CLIENT.

Business Rules

Each GROUP MEMBER -

must be part of only one GROUP CLIENT
may be identified as an ORGANISATIONAL UNIT or may be identified as a PERSON

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Health Insurer

An organisational body that provides insurance cover for the cost of Health Services. Examples include private health insurers as well as Medicare.

Business Rules

Each HEALTH INSURER is a type of ORGANISATIONAL UNIT.

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Health Service Establishment

Any ORGANISATIONAL UNIT that is defined (or is known) as a provider of health care. These include the obvious such as hospitals and community health centres as well as the more administrative concepts such as a Regional Health Authority.

Business Rules

Each HEALTH SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT is a type of ORGANISATIONAL UNIT.

Each HEALTH SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT -

may be responsible for one or more CONTACT EPISODEs
may receive one or more HEALTH CARE SERVICE REQUESTs
may identify one or more HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SITEs
may receive one or more LIAISON NOTICEs
may grant one or more LICENCEs

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Organisational Unit

The whole or a constituent part of an administrative and functional structure (organisation), usually identifiable as an element within an organisation's structure chart.

Business Rules

Each ORGANISATIONAL UNIT is a REGULATORY AUTHORITY, a PROFESSIONAL BODY, an OTHER ORGANISATIONAL UNIT, a HEALTH SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT or a HEALTH INSURER.

Each ORGANISATIONAL UNIT -

may have finacial transactions tracked through one or more ACCOUNTs
may accept one or more AGREEMENTs
may offer one or more AGREEMENTs
may be party to one or more AWARDs
may publish one or more BILLING ITEM CLASSIFICATIONs
may be attributed with one or more CHARACTERISTIC VALUEs
may be the source of one or more COMMODITY TYPEs
may be contactable via one or more COMMUNICATION ADDRESSes
may be accredited to test one or more COMPETENCY TYPEs
may be the agency for one or more CONTRACTORs
may be allocated one or more COST CENTREs
may borrow one or more DOCUMENT COPYs
may be responsible for one or more DOCUMENT COPYs
may receive one or more ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH NOTIFICATIONs
may be located at one or more GEOGRAPHIC ADDRESSes
may be known as one or more GROUP MEMBERs
may recieve one or more HEALTH SYSTEM NOTIFICATIONs
may apply for one or more LICENCEs
may hold one or more LICENCEs
may have as subsidiary one or more ORGANISATIONAL UNITs
may be the source of one or more PERSON IDENTIFIERs
may have stewardship of one or more PHYSICAL RESOURCE ITEMs
may have maintenance responsibility for one or more PHYSICAL RESOURCE ITEMs
may make one or more PLANs
may have one or more POSITIONs
may manage one or more PROJECTs
may be responsible for one or more PUBLIC USE AREAs
may receive one or more SERVICE BILLs
may be the actioner of one or more SERVICE EVENTs
may provide one or more SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTs
may be the source of one or more SPECIFIC COMMODITY ITEMs
may occupy one or more UTILISED BUILDING AREAs
may initiate one or more WORK REQUESTs
may be registered at a GEOGRAPHIC ADDRESS
may be a subsidiary of an ORGANISATIONAL UNIT
may be known as a SUPPLIER

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Other Communication Address

An address other than a postal address by which communication with a party may be established.

This includes:
= fax numbers
= e-mail addresses
= telephone numbers
= pager numbers
= internet addresses

Business Rules

Each OTHER COMMUNICATION ADDRESS is a type of COMMUNICATION ADDRESS.

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Other Organisational Unit

An ORGANISATIONAL UNIT that is not a HEALTH SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT, HEALTH INSURER, REGULATORY AUTHORITY or PROFESSIONAL BODY.

Business Rules

Each OTHER ORGANISATIONAL UNIT is a type of ORGANISATIONAL UNIT.

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Person

A natural person usually identifiable (if necessary) through a record of birth (or other authoritative record) held within the archives of a nation.

Business Rules

Each PERSON -

may be attributed with one or more CHARACTERISTIC VALUEs
may be known as one or more CLIENT ASSOCIATED PERSONs
may be contactable via one or more COMMUNICATION ADDRESSes
may have gained one or more COMPETENCY TYPEs
may reside at one or more GEOGRAPHIC ADDRESSes
may be known as one or more GROUP MEMBERs
may be involved in one or more INCIDENTs
may be known as one or more INDIVIDUAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERs
may hold one or more LICENCEs
may apply for one or more LICENCEs
may be the donor of one or more ORGANIC PRODUCTs
may be distinguished by one or more PERSON IDENTIFIERs
may apply for one or more POSITIONs
may enquire about one or more POSITIONs
may have gained one or more QUALIFICATION LEVELs
may have gained one or more REGISTRATION TYPEs
may receive one or more SERVICE BILLs
may be given one or more STAFF APPOINTMENTs
may work as one or more VOLUNTEERs
may be employed as a CONTRACTOR
may be born in a COUNTRY
may be known as an INDIVIDUAL CLIENT
may be employed as a STAFF MEMBER

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Person Identifier

This is a mechanism by which a PERSON may be uniquely identified. Refer to NHIM v1.0.

Note that this does not include any identifiers internal to the WA Department of Health, such as the UMRN (universal medical record number) allocated to CLIENTs, or staff identifiers.

Business Rules

Each PERSON IDENTIFIER -

must identify only one PERSON
may be issued by an ORGANISATIONAL UNIT

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Postal Address

A delivery point for mail.

The mail delivery point may be a GEOGRAPHIC ADDRESS or some other form of Postal Service address such as a PO Box, a Locked Bag etc.

Business Rules

Each POSTAL ADDRESS is a type of COMMUNICATION ADDRESS.

Each POSTAL ADDRESS may be located at a GEOGRAPHIC ADDRESS.

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Professional Body

An organisational body constituted to represent the interests of a group of persons engaged in a profession.

Business Rules

Each PROFESSIONAL BODY is a type of ORGANISATIONAL UNIT.

Each PROFESSIONAL BODY may have as a member one or more STAFF MEMBERs.

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Regulatory Authority

An organisation that monitors the qualifications and competency of individual service providers and authorises them to practise their profession or trade.

Examples include:
- The Medical Board of WA (responsible for registering doctors)
- The Nurses Board of WA (responsible for registering nurses)
- The Office of Energy (responsible for licensing gas and electricity operatives).

Business Rules

Each REGULATORY AUTHORITY is a type of ORGANISATIONAL UNIT.

Each REGULATORY AUTHORITY may grant one or more REGISTRATION TYPEs.

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Trust

An organisational body that has been established to administer a fund.

Business Rules

Each TRUST -

must be registered at only one GEOGRAPHIC ADDRESS
may have financial transactions tracked through one or more ACCOUNTs

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