Overview
The Practitioner object represents a practitioner (Physician, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, etc), generally a practitioner you want to book appointments with.
Since more detailed information, like the insurances accepted, is often based on a location and schedule level, the Practitioner object purely contains demographic and specialization information. You can use the practitioner ids to find such data in their schedules.
Index Version support
By default, our API returns the practitioners we expose appointment booking capabilities for. This data is accessible using the idx_standard index.
You may want to use your own index version for a few different reasons:
- to manage your own internal provider directory, and maintain new or updated practitioner information
- to modify the practitioner data to update the address, coordinates, etc if the standard information seems incorrect (ex: practitioner's primary specialty is incorrect in the standard index)
Use the Closure-Index-Version header to specify which Index Version you want to write to and read from.