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What's the purpose of structured modelling of names? Why does it matter which parts are family vs given vs whatever else? Lots of the W3C International Examples
by a-priori 7y ago
What's the purpose of structured modelling of names? Why does it matter which parts are family vs given vs whatever else? Lots of the W3C International Examples they give use a `<text>` field. Why not just use that?
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes-examples.html#2.24.1.13.1 https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes-examples.html#2.24.1.13.1
- nradov 7y agoIt matters for collation order, if you want to show a list of patients sorted by family name.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoIs this a current use case, or did that just make sense 100 years ago? (As in these assumptions: "tracking actual relationships in data is Hard, and family name correlates strongly with real-world relationships") I mean, it sort of works even today, but neither of the assumptions are as strong any more.
- nradov 7y agoIt's still a current use case for healthcare provider workflows. Also helps a lot when doing automated record linkage between different systems.