Healthcare Provider

Definition 1: Healthcare actor that is able to be assigned one or more care period mandates
Definition 2: ‘healthcare provider’ means any natural or legal person or any other entity legally providing healthcare on the territory of a Member State; 
Source: Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare.

Acronym / Synonym

care provider,
health provider,
health service provider,
healthcare service provider

Definition Source

Source Def 1: ISO 13940:2015, 5.2.3

Source Def 2: Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare

Note

Note 1: Healthcare Provider is described in the Attribute Collection HEALTHCARE PROVIDER 

Note 2: The personnel of a healthcare organization that is a healthcare provider may include both healthcare professionals and others which participate in the provision of healthcare. 
Note 3: According to the definition in ISO 13940:2015, organizations solely responsible for the funding, payment, or reimbursement of healthcare provision are not healthcare providers; for the purpose of this International Standard they are considered as healthcare third parties.