Stream: implementers
Topic: Codes for phone number business use?
Nick Radov (Nov 01 2021 at 17:13):
Would there be value in enhancing the ContactPoint data type to include optional codes for business use? Some Locations and Organizations have multiple different phone numbers for different business purposes. For example, they might have one for billing inquiries, one for general appointment scheduling, and another one specifically for vaccine appointment scheduling. I don't see a good way to model that today.
I suppose it would be possible to create multiple child Organization resources within a larger parent and then use the Organization.contact.purpose element. But that seems kind of messy.
Cooper Thompson (Nov 01 2021 at 17:19):
This sounds related to FHIR#29035.
Cooper Thompson (Nov 01 2021 at 17:20):
That has a lot of linked trackers. Somewhere we had discussion about whether we should update ContactPoint or create a new data type. It seems like we're probably looking at a new data type.
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
