Stream: implementers
Topic: How to represent an Organisation's emergency contact number
Katie Wheatley (Mar 01 2021 at 14:19):
We have a requirement to represent an organisation's emergency contact number in FHIR. I note that the datatype for Organization.contact.telecom is https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html#ContactPoint which has a required valueset for its use element containing home | work | temp | old | mobile - purpose of this contact point. Would the only way to represent an emergency contact number be to extend this datatype or could any implementers suggest another way of doing this? Many thanks in advance.
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 01 2021 at 14:38):
I would use Organization.contact.purpose for this use-case. 'use' might be work, temp, old or mobile for an emergency contact number.
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