FHIR Chat · Patient Name in Traditional and Simplified Chinese

Stream: 中国 (china)

Topic: Patient Name in Traditional and Simplified Chinese

Michael CHEUNG (Sep 10 2020 at 07:09):

Dear FHIR Chinese experts,

I would like to seek for your advice on how to present Patient Name in Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

I'm from Hong Kong and currently working for appointment booking for EMR system. The EMR system allow patient to input his/her name in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. How can I include all above three names into Patient Resource?

I have tried to follow https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes-examples.html but don't know how to include both Trad. & Simp. Chinese together....

"name": [
{
"resourceType": "HumanName",
"use": "official",
"text": "CHAN, TAI MAN",
"family": "CHAN",
"given": "TAI MAN"
},
{
"extension": [ {
"url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/iso21090-EN-representation",
"valueCode": "IDE" }
],
"text": "陳大文",
"family": "陳",
"given": "大文"
}
]

Grahame Grieve (Sep 10 2020 at 11:16):

that looks right to me from what we discussed in Zhuhai but that was a while ago. @Yunwei Wang ?

tery (Sep 11 2020 at 14:02):

why don't you use the " languages" extension for the HumanName TYPE (http://build.fhir.org/extension-language.html), which have codes of the three languages : en, zh-CN, zh-HK @Michael CHEUNG

Yunwei Wang (Sep 11 2020 at 19:34):

Sorry, just saw this. @Michael CHEUNG you can use FHIR language extension: http://build.fhir.org/extension-language.html
This extension has a preferred binding to FHIR CommonLanguage value set. http://build.fhir.org/valueset-languages.html
In value set, therre are:
zh-CN Chinese (China)
zh-HK Chinese (Hong Kong)
zh-SG Chinese (Singapore)
zh-TW Chinese (Taiwan)

Michael CHEUNG (Sep 14 2020 at 02:52):

Thank you @Grahame Grieve @tery @Yunwei Wang

            "name": [
                {
                    "extension": [ {
                        "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/language",
                        "valueCode": "en" }
                    ],
                    "text": "CHAN, TAI MAN",
                    "family": "CHAN",
                    "given": ["TAI MAN"]
                },
                {
                    "extension": [ {
                        "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/language",
                        "valueCode": "zh-HK" }
                    ],
                    "text": "陳大文",
                    "family": "陳",
                    "given": ["大文"]
                },
                {
                    "extension": [ {
                        "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/language",
                        "valueCode": "zh-CN" }
                    ],
                    "text": "陈大文",
                    "family": "陈",
                    "given": ["大文"]
                }
            ],

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