Stream: implementers
Topic: DocumentReference <> XDS Metadata
Richard Kavanagh (Sep 27 2017 at 22:07):
The FHIR DocumentReference resource maps very closely to the XDS metadata in IHE. I have a question regarding a couple of elements.
We have a potential use case where we need a document to be identified by two codes (a local code and a national code). In FHIR that's fine as we can place multiple codes in the coding part of the codeableConcept for 'type' and 'class'.
We are aware that some places may want to replicate the data into an XDS registry and as such the data would find itself within the XDS Metadata construct. Does IHE XDS Metadata support multiple codes or just the one?
Elliot Silver (Sep 27 2017 at 22:27):
XDS supports only a single classCode or typeCode. Traditionally we would expect that the selection of those codes is part of the governance of an affinity domain (for example, only allowing the national codes to be present). You could use eventCodeList for the "translations".
If you have an additional question, I suggest continuing over in the IHE stream.
Richard Kavanagh (Sep 28 2017 at 12:58):
Thanks for the reply @Elliot Silver It's useful input for us. I'll join the IHE stream as I suspect there may be further questions.
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