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title: "Facade Practitioner"
canonical: "https://wiki.patientsknowbest.com/space/api/3365077416/Facade%20Practitioner"
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[http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/facade-practitioner](http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/facade-practitioner)

[https://www.hl7.org/fhir/STU3/practitioner.html](https://www.hl7.org/fhir/STU3/practitioner.html)

## Overview

The Practitioner resource contains basic demographic information about non-patient users.

Although there is a 1-to-1 mapping between a PKB [[Patient]] and a FHIR Patient, non-Patient user types are more complicated.

PKB has multiple non-Patient user types, but they are all considered to be Practitioners in FHIR. These include:

- [[[Professional]]](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3363700789/Data+Model#Organisation-%26-Users)
- [[[Team Coordinator]]](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3363700789/Data+Model#Organisation-%26-Users)
- [[[Organisation Administrator]]](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3363700789/Data+Model#Organisation-%26-Users)
- [[[Privacy Officer]]](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3363700789/Data+Model#Organisation-%26-Users)

As such, although PKB does not yet permit all of the above user types to authenticate against the FHIR® API, callers should be aware that the Practitioner resource itself does not directly indicate the PKB user type of the associated user.

Callers should not assume that a FHIR Practitioner is a PKB [[Professional]].

## Relevant PKB entities

- [[[Professional]]](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3363700789/Data+Model#Organisation-%26-Users)

## Mappings

| **FHIR** | **PKB** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Resource id | [[User.Public ID]] |  |
| Practitioner.name | - name: HumanName
  - family = [[User.Family Name]]
  - given[0] = [[User.Given Name]]
  - prefix[0] = [[User.Title]] |  |