Stream: implementers
Topic: Representing HRI and UPC
Mona O (Jul 27 2019 at 15:07):
Is there a code system to represent HRI and UPC?
Grahame Grieve (Jul 27 2019 at 21:07):
what are those?
Mona O (Jul 30 2019 at 04:15):
They are codes used to identify devices and supplies (HRI - Health Related Item and UPC - Universal Product Code). It's my understanding a product could have both a HRI and NDC or UPC and NDC or only a HRI or UPC. In addition the product id is not unique across the 3 different code sets. When referencing the ProductOrService within ExplanationOfBenefit resource how would I distinguish a code to be of type HRI vs UPC? Using system "http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/ndc" would indicate the code is NDC which would not be accurate.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 30 2019 at 05:02):
who publishes HRI and UPC codes?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 30 2019 at 06:34):
UPC is a distributed issuing mechanism. They're managed by GS1 and are a subset of GTINs
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 30 2019 at 06:35):
HRI looks like it's US-specific from Health & Human Services: https://healthdata.gov/dataset/nhric-national-health-related-items-code
Grahame Grieve (Jul 30 2019 at 06:38):
UPC - use the GTIN code system then. @Rob Hausam haven't we talked about nhric before?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 30 2019 at 06:38):
I think for UPCs you'd just use the GTIN URL (https://www.gs1.org/gtin). We probably need to issue a URL for HRI.
Rob Hausam (Jul 31 2019 at 12:07):
@Grahame Grieve I think we have have talked about NHRIC before (which appears to be from FDA), but I'm not recalling any specific details of where we might have gotten with that at the moment. Agree that we should at least have a URL.
Eric Haas (Jul 31 2019 at 18:13):
Will there be both a upc and a udi?
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jul 31 2019 at 18:37):
Not really. UPC is same as GTIN, which is the DI part of the UDI
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jul 31 2019 at 18:40):
DI part of the UDI = product code
Eric Haas (Jul 31 2019 at 19:51):
Will there be a combination of any three. UPC udi or HRI. ? (Why is there a HRI and udi they seem to be addressing the same thing on the face of it. )
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 31 2019 at 19:57):
Different assigning authorities, different coding granularities
Eric Haas (Jul 31 2019 at 20:04):
Blah
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