Group Resource

While the Group resource can be used to support aggregate reporting on beds, as it allows reporting of quantities of an item without referencing an individual item, it has not been deployed in this way by any known system. This resource can also be used to report on other types of resources, such as ventilators, respirators, and N95 masks.

NOTE: While Group doesn’t specifically support groups of Location resources, it can be used to report on any group of things that can be defined by characteristics, it simply cannot enumerate those resources. That is not essential for the use cases in this implementation guide.

The Group resource is more lightly deployed in existing EHR products. It is not a requirement of the 2015 Certification program.