# EPA Patient - Implementation Guide ePA Basisfunktionalitäten v1.3.1

Implementation Guide

ePA Basisfunktionalitäten

Version 1.3.1 - release 

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**FHIR-Artefakte**](artifacts.md)
* **EPA Patient**

## Resource Profile: EPA Patient 

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:https://gematik.de/fhir/epa/StructureDefinition/epa-patient | *Version*:1.3.0 |
| Active as of 2025-12-15 | *Computable Name*:EPAPatient |
| **Copyright/Legal**: gematik GmbH / Dieses Artefakt ist lizenziert unter [Apache License](./license.md), Version 2.0. | |

 
Das Patient-Profil für die ePA 

**Usages:**

* Examples for this Profile: [Patient/7eeb4e81-ce38-4d70-84fc-9ca4c7d0939c](Patient-7eeb4e81-ce38-4d70-84fc-9ca4c7d0939c.md)
* CapabilityStatements using this Profile: [Capability Statement für Clients des ePA Patient Service](CapabilityStatement-epa-patient-client.md) and [EPA CapabilityStatement für den Patient Service](CapabilityStatement-epa-patient-server.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/de.gematik.epa|current/StructureDefinition/epa-patient)

### Formal Views of Profile Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-epa-patient.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-epa-patient.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-epa-patient.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "epa-patient",
  "url" : "https://gematik.de/fhir/epa/StructureDefinition/epa-patient",
  "version" : "1.3.0",
  "name" : "EPAPatient",
  "title" : "EPA Patient",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2025-12-15",
  "publisher" : "gematik GmbH",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "gematik GmbH",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://www.gematik.de"
    },
    {
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "patientteam [ at ] gematik.de"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "Das Patient-Profil für die ePA",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
      "code" : "DE"
    }]
  }],
  "copyright" : "gematik GmbH / Dieses Artefakt ist lizenziert unter [Apache License](./license.html), Version 2.0.",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "cda",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3/cda",
    "name" : "CDA (R2)"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "w5",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/fivews",
    "name" : "FiveWs Pattern Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "v2",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v2",
    "name" : "HL7 v2 Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "loinc",
    "uri" : "http://loinc.org",
    "name" : "LOINC code for the element"
  }],
  "kind" : "resource",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "Patient",
  "baseDefinition" : "https://gematik.de/fhir/ti/StructureDefinition/ti-patient",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Patient",
      "path" : "Patient"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.id",
      "path" : "Patient.id",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.meta",
      "path" : "Patient.meta",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.meta.versionId",
      "path" : "Patient.meta.versionId",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.meta.lastUpdated",
      "path" : "Patient.meta.lastUpdated",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.identifier",
      "path" : "Patient.identifier",
      "min" : 1
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.identifier:KVNR",
      "path" : "Patient.identifier",
      "sliceName" : "KVNR",
      "min" : 1
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.identifier:KVNR.system",
      "path" : "Patient.identifier.system",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.identifier:KVNR.value",
      "path" : "Patient.identifier.value",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.active",
      "path" : "Patient.active",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Name",
      "path" : "Patient.name",
      "sliceName" : "Name"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Name.prefix.extension:prefix-qualifier",
      "path" : "Patient.name.prefix.extension",
      "sliceName" : "prefix-qualifier"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Name.prefix.extension:prefix-qualifier.url",
      "path" : "Patient.name.prefix.extension.url",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Name.prefix.extension:prefix-qualifier.value[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.name.prefix.extension.value[x]",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname",
      "path" : "Patient.name",
      "sliceName" : "Geburtsname"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:namenszusatz",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension",
      "sliceName" : "namenszusatz"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:namenszusatz.url",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension.url",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:namenszusatz.value[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension.value[x]",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:nachname",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension",
      "sliceName" : "nachname"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:nachname.url",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension.url",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:nachname.value[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension.value[x]",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:vorsatzwort",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension",
      "sliceName" : "vorsatzwort"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:vorsatzwort.url",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension.url",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.name:Geburtsname.family.extension:vorsatzwort.value[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.name.family.extension.value[x]",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension",
      "sliceName" : "other-amtlich"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich.url",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension.url",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich.value[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension.value[x]",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich.value[x].system",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension.value[x].system",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich.value[x].version",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension.value[x].version",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich.value[x].code",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension.value[x].code",
      "mustSupport" : true
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.gender.extension:other-amtlich.value[x].display",
      "path" : "Patient.gender.extension.value[x].display",
      "mustSupport" : true
    }]
  }
}

```
