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Looking at secstate's post reminds me of one of the neater things (at least to me) in FHIR models, that a patient can also represent an animal. I have only work
by leovander 7y ago
Looking at secstate's post reminds me of one of the neater things (at least to me) in FHIR models, that a patient can also represent an animal. I have only worked with HIEs and EHRs for humans so I don't know what veterinarians' EHRs may be using. Do they use race and ethnicity fields for animal type and breed?
Anyway, my only other IDC related story is that of going from ICD-9 to ICD-10, when decimals came into play. We had several projects where we had to go back and do global replaces on ICD-9 codes to play nicely with the ICD-10 codes.
- nwhatt 7y agoAnimal was removed from the base Patient resource spec in r4.
- leovander 7y agoI did see that after I posted last night. It looks like they are now an extension. https://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-patient-animal.html https://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-patient-animal.html
- marcinzm 7y ago>Anyway, my only other IDC related story is that of going from ICD-9 to ICD-10, when decimals came into play. We had several projects where we had to go back and do global replaces on ICD-9 codes to play nicely with the ICD-10 codes. I like how ICD 9 and 10 don't use mutually disjoint sets of codes so there's a tiny overlap where the same code is present in both but means very different things. But only a tiny overlap so a QA cycle probably won't catch the issue.