Hi all,
I found the Swedish National Registration number quite simple and easy
to use. It is constructed as:
<date of birth: yyyymmdd> <male/female: 1/0> <a serial number: {regions
and municipalities} + {a sequence number}>
Adding that with the ISO country code at the front, there will be an
easy to construct and easy to remember global PID. Now the question is,
whether it is a good or bad thing for PID to be so simply constructed
and remembered.
Regards,
John
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Hi,
On Monday 08 March 2004 13:10, J. Antas wrote:
> About the PID concept, also named MPI, the following was taken from
the
> openhealth list:
> "State of the art may be in the eye of the beholder, but we have a
> component out of which an MPI can be built. It is an implementation
of
> the Person Identification Service (PIDS) specification of the OMG.
This
> includes patient correlation management, merging, etc. It is
available
> at http://OpenEMed.org as part of the OpenEMed software suite. It
has
> a FreeBSD style license. It should fit into your J2EE environment
quite
> well although it has no dependencies on J2EE.
> It supports almost any kind of database underneath it and can work in
a
> fully distributed environment with security."
Thanks for this. I will try to look into the said resource. The above
passage
sounds to be more of a promotional ads than an info though (Hey, they
all are
suddenly learning marketing and promotion! ).
I prefer to call it PID and to mean Person ID not Patient ID. Using
anonymized
data systems, global statistics can be made (not only for healhcare
related
matters).
> I bet you were inspired by:
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/openhealth-list%40minoru-development.com/msg
107
> Well... it was described a few years ago and at that time it was not
> considered such a clever idea.
I wish somebody could tell me why it was not considered a clever idea.
> But if you still want to go that way, first take a look at "Anatomy of
> Credit Card Numbers" that you may find at:
> http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm
>
> It seems that VISA, among other tests also tried that and it showed to
> be not practical.
I also wish that somebody could explain why it showed to be impractical.
The link to the credit card anatomy showed that the first few digits are
related to ISO country standard.
Btw: I am very satisfied with VISA. (this is not an advertisement).
> The first law of open source says:
> "In face of a new problem try first to search and reuse an already
made
> and proofed solution"
>
> If that fails then, and only then, reinvent the wheel yourself... :-)
That is true. If there is a successful global healthcare numbering
system out
there already, then we follow it. If not, then we invent it. Why not?
Now the current question is: Where can we find such a system to copy?
> Well, they do have to deal with country specific idiosyncrasies at
> identifying patients, do they?
If people see the advantages of a global unique PID (if there is any),
then
the acceptance will not be that difficult. If some countries dont accept
it
due to any reason beyond normal logic, then just leave them.
Still, I am looking for concrete works and results related to this
matter. Any
hints and pointers are welcome.
Regards,
elpidio
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