---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Provenance Entity Role"
codesystem: "provenance-entity-role"
---
# Provenance Entity Role

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/provenance-entity-role
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: ProvenanceEntityRole
- **Title**: Provenance Entity Role
- **Publisher**: HL7 International / Security
- **Description**: How an entity was used in an activity.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| revision | Revision | An entity that is used by the activity to produce a new version of that entity. |
| quotation | Quotation | An entity that is copied in full or part by an agent that is not the author of the entity. |
| source | Source | An entity that is used as input to the activity that produced the target. |
| instantiates | Instantiates | The record resulting from this event adheres to the protocol, guideline, order set or other definition represented by this entity. |
| removal | Removal | An entity that is removed from accessibility, usually through the DELETE operator. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="provenance-entity-role"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="sec"/>
  </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="6"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/provenance-entity-role"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.437"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.428"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.247"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="ProvenanceEntityRole"/>
  <title value="Provenance Entity Role"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2025-11-01"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 International / Security"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/secure"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="How an entity was used in an activity."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/provenance-entity-role"/>
  <hierarchyMeaning value="is-a"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="revision"/>
    <display value="Revision"/>
    <definition value="An entity that is used by the activity to produce a new version of that entity."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="quotation"/>
    <display value="Quotation"/>
    <definition value="An entity that is copied in full or part by an agent that is not the author of the entity."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="source"/>
    <display value="Source"/>
    <definition value="An entity that is used as input to the activity that produced the target."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="instantiates"/>
    <display value="Instantiates"/>
    <definition value="The record resulting from this event adheres to the protocol, guideline, order set or other definition represented by this entity."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="removal"/>
    <display value="Removal"/>
    <definition value="An entity that is removed from accessibility, usually through the DELETE operator."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```