Re: [Gnumed-devel] proposal for HL7 v2.3 to gnumed parsing

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:46:15AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >What if several matches occur ?
> 
> Surely there will be at least one extra id, either some kind of 
> "health identifier" usually specific to the patient.
Surely the patient will be identifiable somehow. I was
referring to what the parser is intended to do in that case...

> The extra "id", if not a "health identifier", could be an originating 
> doctor's office tracking number (request_id) which I believe is 
> assigned in Germany and might occur in other countries. This could 
> indirectly serve to identify the patient to whom the specimen 
> belonged, yes?
Yes

Karsten
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