NBS HL7 Workgroup Meeting Call Notes March 21 2017 Attendees: Riki Merrick, Brendan Reilly, Ashleigh Ragsdale, Susan Downer, Rhonda West, Willie Andrews, Rebecca Goodwin, Joshua Miller, Reviewing the updated Birth time LOINC no longer supported For IDs should we use a CX datatype, so that we can include the assigning authority and the identifier type? Examples of identifier types = Social Security Number, CLIA, NPI, Medical Record number, credit card number driver’s license number etc. Folks are most likely share NPI for post-discharge provider - in VA we give them the ID to use for the providers to send to for post-discharge provider it is assigned by VA PHA – What is the liberty for adjusting datatypes on the LOINCs? Rebecca to double checl XO-Component use at the end of the profile after further constraint have been applied to any optional field that may be of use to the NDBS which would mean that every implementation would have to – create an MSH-21 profile OID not really feasible programs of course can ignore any data coming in, – – that they are not expecting and using, BUT some data may not be desired also when so many optional – fields, requires negotiation with every partner and we wanted to avoid that Downside of doing that is it is hard to leave a few elements O in local implantations it basically would – force local groups to decide if RE or X (or some other usage besides O), so that one of the partners might end up being non-conformant Ballot pool sign up is open, so please sign up We won’t need any calls until after ballot review closes Next call 5/2/2017
NBS HL7 Workgroup Meeting Call Notes March 21 2017 Attendees: Riki Merrick, Brendan Reilly, Ashleigh Ragsdale, Susan Downer, Rhonda West, Willie Andrews, Rebecca Goodwin, Joshua Miller, Reviewing the updated Birth time LOINC no longer supported For IDs should we use a CX datatype, so that we can include the assigning authority and the identifier type? Examples of identifier types = Social Security Number, CLIA, NPI, Medical Record number, credit card number driver’s license number etc. Folks are most likely share NPI for post-discharge provider - in VA we give them the ID to use for the providers to send to for post-discharge provider – it is assigned by VA PHA What is the liberty for adjusting datatypes on the LOINCs? Rebecca to double checl XO-Component use at the end of the profile after further constraint have been applied to any optional field that may be of use to the NDBS – which would mean that every implementation would have to create an MSH-21 profile OID – not really feasible – programs of course can ignore any data coming in, that they are not expecting and using, BUT some data may not be desired – also when so many optional fields, requires negotiation with every partner and we wanted to avoid that Downside of doing that is it is hard to leave a few elements O in local implantations – it basically would force local groups to decide if RE or X (or some other usage besides O), so that one of the partners might end up being non-conformant Ballot pool sign up is open, so please sign up We won’t need any calls until after ballot review closes Next call 5/2/2017
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