Stream: implementers
Topic: Value Sets for postalCode
Keith Boone (Jul 22 2020 at 16:45):
I'm looking for Value Sets that have been created for International Postal Codes. I have a system url for the coding system for US (from the HL7 OID registry), and for postal codes Germany (found through Simplfier). Are there value sets or coding systems defined elsewhere for postal codes in other countries?
Robert McClure (Jul 22 2020 at 17:09):
@Keith Boone I can't give you any help finding these things but just so you know, for HL7 postal codes would be represented in FHIR as a NamingSystem and the one that exists for the US codes is USZIPCODES
René Spronk (Aug 01 2020 at 14:20):
There is no overarching naming/coding scheme AFAIK, so each and every country will have assigned their own URL/OID. I'm aware the Netherlands also has such an OID @Alexander Henket ?
Eric Haas (Aug 01 2020 at 20:41):
US Core has http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/us-core-usps-state
Eric Haas (Aug 01 2020 at 20:42):
it would be great to include Canada and Mexico in there. (I think there is a tracker)
Alexander Henket (Aug 04 2020 at 16:11):
We never assigned a system URI for many our 10-17 years old OID based identifiers. This is one of those too
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