Author

Author is 'A party that originates an act and therefore has responsibility for the information given in the act and ownership of this Act.

Example: the report writer, the person writing the act definition, the guideline author, the placer of an order, the EKG cart (device) creating a report, etc. Every Act should have an Author...' -HL7 RIM Definition

Care Provision Acts

The implication of Authorship over a Care Provision Act implies that this author has current responsibility for Care Provision or responsibility for coordination of Care Provision to the Targets of Care.

Two use cases are important:

1. When the author and performer are the same, then the statement of responsibility regards the author as performer.
2. When the author and performer are the same, then the statement of responsibility regards the author as performer.

When the author and performer are different, then the statement of responsibility regards the performer.

The set of use cases implied is that the responsibility for care is being:

1. Started or continued by the author ( mood = event)
   1. for the author or
   2. for another performer
2. Requested from another performer (mood = request)
3. Promised by the author (mood = promise)
4. Rejected by the author (mood = event)
5. Discontinued by the author (mood = event),
   1. for the author or
   2. for another performer

This glossary item is based on v3. The wording may have been extended by later edits to provide additional detail.