Bert Verhees wrote: >Two simpel questions, though the answer may be complicated > >1) Is there an OID which can be used if there is no OID known, f.e. 0.0.0.0.0 > >2) I work for a comany which wants to use the insurance-number of a patient >for a special goal. It only wants the Insurance-number. >What is the best way to present this? >Normally, the Insurance-number is a part of the Identity which is a list of >II, but the items of that list do not contain meta-information. How can an >insurance number be recognized? > > for what it is worth, I think that HL7 has not modelled identities properly; using only II for everything assumes that every organisation in the world will have OIDs and be using them for all the things they issue. I really doubt that this will ever happen, but even if it does, it won't be in place for another 10-20 years. In openEHR we differentiate between OBJECT_ID (ids for informational things) and DV_IDENTIFIER, a data type for identifiers of real world obejcts, like drivers licenses and insurance; this latter type contains the attributes you need to indicate the organisation etc.See the data types at http://www.openehr.org/repositories/spec-dev/latest/publishing/architecture/reference_model/data_types/data_types_im.pdf.
- thomas -- ___________________________________________________________________________________ Research Fellow, University College London (http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk) Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR (http://www.openEHR.org) CTO Ocean Informatics (http://www.OceanInformatics.biz) - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
