"II.displayable: Specifies if the identifier is intended for human display and data entry (displayable = true) as opposed to pure machine interoperation (displayable = false)."-- Source: HL7 Implementation Guidance for Unique Object Identifiers (OIDs), Release 1
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Preferred number in ISO II datatype
I was asking myself the question of how to indicate a preferred number (NL:voorkeursnummer) for de id values of a Patient. And of course there is an answer for that:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Well - "intended for human reading" doesn't mean it's "preferred".
If one looks at the v3 LanguageCommunication class: it has a preferenceInd to indicate what language (if multiple are present) is the preferent one.
For a Norwegian project I had some discussion with the PA committee; and we ended up using the "preferred/valid" patien IDs in Patient.id, and all "Non-preferred/obsolete" identifiers in the OtherIds.id attribute.
II.displayable was intented to be set to false if one e.g. assigns a GUID to a patient, and ID which is only used for software processing.
Post a Comment