The Healthcare Provider Participant provides details for any member of the clinical
team (e.g. the primary physician or members of a circle of care) when he or she is
not identified under other document participations already. Where a document is providing
information related to a specific encounter (for Instance, Discharge Summary), the
providers associated with that encounter (Attending Physician, Referring Physician,
Consultant, etc.) are recorded as participants in the Encompassing Encounter. In the
case where the Primary Care Physician is not part the encounter,
but should be included in the
document, the Primary Care Physician is included in the Generic Participant construct,
with appropriate codes to indicate his or her role.