Hi, I am working with the final drafts of EN 13606, maybe some information I use is obsolete, please let me know if it is. Maybe, if I misunderstand something, please let me know.
------------------------------------- I have a problem with II, used in GPIC *PatientExtendedInformation*, it has an ID, which is a Set of II. Definition from CEN document: id O SET<II> One or more identifiers that may be used to uniquely identify the patient Examples: social security number, health service number, hospital number, case notes number ------------------------------------- I am writing a mapping library from small GP Information Systems to GPIC-objects. And When you create a GPIC-object, it takes care of filling itself with data. So it creates a list of II, in which the ID's are stored. At this moment I have following ID's: - Local GP-Information System ID, which is in most GP-Systems the primary key of the patient-table. - Insurance number The last one gives me a headache, when I look at the *defintion of II in CEN TS 14796*: An II consists of four properties: *extension* The value of the identifier, unique within its assigning authority's namespace. *root* Mandatory A unique identifier that guarantees the global uniqueness of the instance identifier. The root alone may be the entire instance identifier, an extension value is not needed. *assigningAuthorityName* A human readable name or mnemonic for the assigning authority. This name is provided solely for the convenience of unaided humans interpreting an II value. Note: no automated processing must depend on the assigning authority name to be present in any form. *validTime* If applicable, specifies during what time the identifier is valid. By default, the identifier is valid ...... The root value is not known to the GP-System, and not known to me, al though this is the only mandatory property, I cannot use it. I just forget that, I can write something in it later, it is a not used property in my context of PatientExtendedInformation. (Someone have an ID what can be put in it?) The extension has the ID, - in the Local ID, it contains a number, as assigningAuthorityName I give it LocalID - in the InsuranceNumber, it contains the (guess?) the InsuranceNumber, and as assigningAuthorityName, the InsuranceCompany. The remark in the document says that no automated processing should rely on that. *My Question *How can an automated Process distinguish a InsuranceNumber? The II datatype needs IMHO a mood-indicator, or else a automated process will never know what to do with one of the ID's. Thanks in advance for an answer kind regards Bert Verhees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050301/396a7df7/attachment.html>
