You can store persons or entities with which your institution maintains business relationships in the IS-H System. You can maintain the relationship of a patient or a case to a person or an entity by creating a reference to the corresponding business partner master record.

Since the relationships business partners can have to your institution can be of several types, you create a business partner function for each type of relationship. For instance, a health insurance company exists in the functions Insurance Provider and Customer.

The following business partner functions are available in the IS-H System:

• Employer
• Insurance provider
• Customer
• Hospital
• Employee / external physician
• External ordering party (country version Switzerland)
• Fee recipient (country version Switzerland)

You store data that is specific to a function (e.g. bank details for the Customer function) in the corresponding business partner functions. You store data that is valid for the business partner, irrespective of the specific function this partner performs, as general business partner data.

You can also store a person or a entity without a specific function as a business partner in the system. In this case, you only maintain the name and address data in the general business partner data.