HL7%20Meeting%20-%20Toronto%201999

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HL7 Meeting - Toronto 1999

• Report of the
• International Facilitator
• to PAFM
• Klaus Veil
• Sydney, Australia

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Background Information

• Function created at HL7 Plenary Meeting in San
  Diego, 1998.
• Objectives
• Ensure international requirements are included in
  V2.x and V3.
• Ensure that HL7 Standards Documents are
  internationally understood.
• Long term make HL7 globally applicable.

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Work Done so far - 1

• Initial focus on V2.3.2.
• Proposal to PAFM on Internationalisation of
  Terms at San Diego Meeting, 1998 has been
  incorporated into V2.3.2 Draft
• "ERISA", "John Doe", etc.
• Winter Meeting vs Summer Meeting?

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Work Done so far - 2

• PAFM Naming Work Group
• Brief To modify the V2.3.2 person data types to
  accommodate international requirements.
• Moderator K. Veil
• Participants Holland, USA, Australia
• Monitored endorsed by Germany, Finland,
  Canada.
• 3 joint teleconferences with V3 Datatypes group
  (G. Schadow).

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Work Done so far - 3

• PAFM Naming Work Group, cont
• 5 further teleconferences focussed on proposal to
  PAFM Meeting in Toronto.
• Closure achieved on all issues.
• All enhancements are backward compatible.
• All meeting notes were published at
• http//OurWorld.CompuServe.com/Homepages/KVeil/Na
  mes.htm

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Work Done so far - 4

• PAFM Naming Work Group, cont
• Proposal
• Expand "Middle name or initial" to allow multiple
  middle names.
• To accommodate composite names the subcompo-nents
  "Family name from partner/spouse" and "Family
  name prefix from partner/spouse" were added. The
  "P" name type was obsoleted.
• A "name context" subcomponent was added to allow
  the capture of the context in which a name type
  is used

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Work Done so far - 5

• PAFM Naming Work Group, cont
• A new name type "Nick Name/Call-me Name/Street
  Name" to HL7 Table 200 code is "N".
• The above proposal changes XPN to
• ltfamily name (ST)gt ltfamily name prefix (ST)gt
  ltfamily name from partner/spousegt (ST)gt ltfamily
  name prefix from partner/spouse (ST)gt ltgiven
  name (ST)gt ltsecond and further given names or
  initials thereof (ST)gt ltsuffix (e.g., JR or
  III) (ST)gt ltprefix (e.g., DR) (ST)gt ltdegree
  (e.g., MD) (IS)gt ltname type code (ID) gt ltname
  representation code (ID) name context (CE)

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Further Work to be done

• Approve expanded XPN data type in PAFM TC.
• Ensure V2.3.2 international enhancements are
  transferred to V3.
• Harmonise the existing national HL7 variants.

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• Thank You!