Stream: implementers
Topic: Logical Model element types
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 03 2020 at 07:38):
When working with Logical Models, we want to indicate "this is a number, this is text". We can use physical data types but those are specific to FHIR, which does not seem very kosher..
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 03 2020 at 07:38):
Any ideas on this? What are others doing there?
Before, I removed elementDefinition.type altogether - which makes the Publisher react a bit, but I don't mind.
Oliver Egger (Jun 03 2020 at 08:13):
Jose Costa Teixeira said:
When working with Logical Models, we want to indicate "this is a number, this is text". We can use physical data types but those are specific to FHIR, which does not seem very kosher..
why not use FHIR primitive types ? the spec calls for that for logical models: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/structuredefinition.html#logical
The same definition structure can also be used to define any arbitrary structures that are a directed acyclic graph with typed nodes, where the primitive types are those defined by the FHIR specification.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 03 2020 at 08:27):
My understanding is that the primitive types are also on the physical layer - if string means "maximum 1024 characters" if we have "markdown" instead of "formatted text", this seems a physical implementation
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 03 2020 at 08:27):
(I may be wrong in this assumption)
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 03 2020 at 08:29):
BTW,
http://build.fhir.org/types.html
the link to Logical Models does not point to anywhere - and I think some documentation on Logical Models would be good
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 03 2020 at 19:56):
Any recommendation on what to use as types for Logical Models? Are Primitive types Logical ? or Physical (they seem physical to me)
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 05 2020 at 10:55):
@Grahame Grieve ?
Grahame Grieve (Jun 05 2020 at 21:32):
I'm not sure what you're asking. But I think that answer might lie in the fact that logical models cannot define their own primitive types
Giorgio Cangioli (Jun 05 2020 at 21:44):
@Jose Costa Teixeira i defined abstract data types for the IPS logical model representing the EN 17269 IPS data set (now ISO 27269)
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jun 06 2020 at 05:33):
I think this is what I need as well
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