---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Actor Definition Actor Type"
codesystem: "actordefinition-actor-type"
---
# Actor Definition Actor Type

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/actordefinition-actor-type
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: ActorDefinitionActorType
- **Title**: Actor Definition Actor Type
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: The type of actor - system or human or other.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| person | Person | A human being acting directly. |
| system | System | A software application or collection of such applications functioning as or represented as a single entity.  (This would be instantiated in FHIR as a Device.) |
| collective | Collective | A group of people or animals |
| other | Other | Some other kind of actor |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="actordefinition-actor-type"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="fhir"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="0"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/actordefinition-actor-type"/>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="ActorDefinitionActorType"/>
  <title value="Actor Definition Actor Type"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="The type of actor - system or human or other."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/actordefinition-actor-type"/>
  <hierarchyMeaning value="is-a"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="person"/>
    <display value="Person"/>
    <definition value="A human being acting directly."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="system"/>
    <display value="System"/>
    <definition value="A software application or collection of such applications functioning as or represented as a single entity.  (This would be instantiated in FHIR as a Device.)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="collective"/>
    <display value="Collective"/>
    <definition value="A group of people or animals"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="other"/>
    <display value="Other"/>
    <definition value="Some other kind of actor"/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```