Bert,
The HL7 II data type has the "assigningAuthorityName" so you can identify
the insurance company for example.
Thanks,
Amnon.
Bert Verhees
<bert.verhees at ros
a.nl> To
Sent by: Edgar Gl?ck <edgar.gluck at kith.no>
owner-openehr-tec cc
hnical at openehr.or t.marley at salford.ac.uk,
g openehr-technical at openehr.org,
g.freriks at pg.tno.nl, "kay s"
<s.kay at salford.ac.uk>,
25/05/05 10:36 per-arne.lundgren at skane.se, "Gunnar
Klein" <gunnar.klein at sis.se>,
inger.wejerfelt at vgregion.se
Please respond to Subject
openehr-technical Issue 2
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Not having a qualifier in II
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The datatype II should have a standarized qualifier which gives
meta-information about II itself.
As it is possible, as described, to add more than one II object to an
entity,
it should be recognizable which one means what.
In run against this as someone wanted to know which one in the list of II's
was the insurance number of a patient in the GPIC
PatientExtendedInformation.
The insurancenumber was needed for automated processing.
Suggestions about using the OID for this purpose did not solve the problem,
because the OID has no metainformation.
An application which wants to process the insurancenumber should in that
case
resolve the OID, and after resolving it, and getting information about the
organisations/companies which are behind the OID, know which one is an
insurance-company, The problem can even be more complicated because an
organisation can have more functions. For example, it is possible for an
organisation to deliver health-insurance and a monthly income for disabled
people.
Even when they have to OID's for those two functions, the application which
does automated processing should then know which OID serves what purpose.
It is also possible that an OID points to an unknown organisation, how can
an
application know what kind of organisation that is, and what purpose it
serves.
In the end, it would be very easy if there was a qualifier. Perhaps a
application does not want to know the name and address of the organisation
which is the owner of a certain number.
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