I also think that there is a need for a more concrete II class. Some countries have a "national id" for every inhabitant and I think that many local systems manage patients using this id. Also through insurance number or EHR number (inside a hospital). How to distinguish every kind of identifier for example at "id" attribute (SET<II> type) in SubjectOfCarePersonIdentification?
Regards On 5/25/05, Bert Verhees <bert.verhees at rosa.nl> wrote: > > -------------------------- > Not having a qualifier in II > -------------------------- > > 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. > ---------------------- > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050525/caf46f2b/attachment.html>
