[Gnumed-devel] demographics.sql

[Ian Haywood]

There are some potentially controversial changes I would like to make to 
gmDemographics

1/ Organisations present a problem. At present, a lot of GUI and middleware 
code is going to get written
which repeats what we have with "org" substituted with "identity" I would like 
to have a "special gender"
to mark organisations in the identity table, saving this work. The clinical 
stuff is going to need to guard against
linking to such an entry, possiblity a view real_person could help here.

or can org and identity share a common ancestor?

2/ Numbers, such as "Medicare number", "provider number, etc." Obviously totally
locale and context specific. In the backend and business layer its easily to 
generalise
like we do with comms channels, but difficult at the GUI level.
Should we have
if locale == "AU"
......
elif locale == "DE":
....

or somethng else? I'm not sure what.

Ian

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