Dear Elpidio Latorilla, Great idea.
However, let a person's identity be not connected with the hospital (hope not the hospital of birth). Following the telephone nos example is a good one. We must not make things complicated. A very large number of countries are planning to have citizen's identity card with a unique number for each citizen. We in India, are thinking of such a scheme. The id cards will be smartcards and you may be able to use them as auto id etc in C2X. Hope we will have a smartcard interface in C2X. Regards. Atul Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-03-10 21:45:43 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Mahatma Gandhi ======= At 2004-03-08, 11:05:00 Elpidio Latorilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ======= >Hi all, > >while preparing some documents for the 2nd generation Care2x, I remembered the >initial idea of a global PID. This should be an ID for a person which must be >unique globally. > >Does anyone know of any work on this, proposals, thesis, dissertations, or >working protocols? I would be glad to know the links to the documents. Please >let me know. > >Anyway, I noticed the VISA credit card system and its numbering system. >Each number is global and is unique to an account, well, a person can have >several accounts. But we can modify the idea to one-number-one-person system. >Each number has 16 digits grouped in 4 digits: e.g. > >6345 6655 0005 7789 > >To accomodate this, the pid field for care2x must be modified to 16 digits >(which is very easy to do). > >Now, lets look further to putting some intelligence on the number: > >Lets say the first 4-digit group is exclusively for coding the country where >the person was first registered. Should we use an ISO country numbering? >I could not take the first 2 digits only because there are more than 100 >countries, so lets take 4-digits. That would give us 9,999 possibilities >which would mean many unused numbers. Also, to avoid problems with the 2-of-5 >interlaced barcode format, the first digit should never be zero. So the >number of the first person should look like this: > >1001 0001 0000 0001 > >That would mean: country 1, hospital 1, person 1. > >The country coding should not be a problem, we just use the ISO standards. > >The second 4-digit group should be exclusive for coding the hospital in the >country. This numbering should be done officially by some kind of official >national standards commision (or something similar) of the country. The >second group will allow for 9,999 hospitals in one country. Does anyone know >of a country who has more than that number of hospitals? (or is likely to >have more than that figure in the future?) > >The remaining 8 digits are to number the person. That will allow a maximum of >99,999,999 (almost 100 million) persons for each hospital. > >I admit the above is very simplistic. Please let me know of your opinion or >own ideas. > >If VISA can do it for global credit system, why couldn't we for the healthcare >system? > >Time for Care2x foundation to come? > >Thanks >Elpidio > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials >Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of >GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system >administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Care2002-developers mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
