[Gnumed-devel] Measurements - how much HL7 to make accessible? - PID

[Busser, Jim]

> In the rest of this thread I will take the HL7 segments one at a time …

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 PID (Patient ID)
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A lab *might*

        - incorrectly report a patient sex / gender as M or F
        - or otherwise report a patient sex gender differently than GNUmed
                for example, that they did not establish the patient sex ( U = 
Unknown)

Some of this kind of information can be part of the matching criteria in the 
match table. Accordingly, anything decided in the coding to be important enough 
to prevent an  "auto-match"  would have to have been seen by a responsible 
human so I am satisfied that in the "Patient ID" segments we will have in 
GNUmed adequate capacity for Patient ID review.


-- Jim