Re: [Gnumed-devel] Open Source Health Informatics, London, 30th Sep 2010

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-08-13, at 2:37 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> uhn?  err... ah.  rrright.  then what's clin.lab_request_id for??
> 
> hmmm, i think i might have this the wrong way round, perhaps.  or,
> somebody has.

I lost sight there GNUmed has two distinct fields in that table, supporting two 
different values as you pointed out.

request_id can be purely "owned" by GNUmed and returned by whichever path labs 
will handle it.

lab_request_id is perhaps what is on the German labels and perhaps allows the 
clinician at the point of blood/urine-taking to know what the path lab's 
"internal id" is going to be. This maybe achieves to gain the exact same value 
(if Germany would adopt HL7) in ORC 002.

Way to go, Germany!

-- Jim