How do you consider a phone number as a unique identifier? It is unique today. But somebody else could have that number tomorrow.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE > Cameron, > > Couldn't we just create a new identifier segment that uses a number which > is unique to every medical facility in the world, their international > telephone number. If the string is 3 digits, then it is VA. If it is 7 or > more digits, then it is a non-VA faility. Isn't this a characteristic of > HL7 segment elements? > > If this field is rigidly 3 characters, then couldn't we just define a > whole new HL7 record with that field of that segment defined as a string > rather than 3 numerics. Won't that work?? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
