Stream: V2
Topic: Equipment type for e-mail in XTN
Cooper Thompson (Aug 05 2021 at 18:37):
What is the right way to communicate the equipment type for an e-mail address in PID-13? That is an XTN data type, which uses table 0202. That has two codes that seem somewhat relevant: Internet and X.400. Almost all e-mail addresses will be SMTP these days, so X.400 seems incorrect. But Internet seems overly broad.
Daniel Rutz (Aug 05 2021 at 21:05):
Agreed that Internet doesn't seem to cut it. Also, how would one specify both a regular email address and a Direct address?
Craig Newman (Aug 06 2021 at 12:25):
At least for a Direct there is a UTG proposal from @Hans Buitendijk to add DSM to table 0202 (https://jira.hl7.org/browse/UP-124)
Lisa Nelson also brought up the Direct issue but proposed a solution using table 0201 (https://jira.hl7.org/browse/UP-162 and https://confluence.hl7.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=97480674) but Lisa's seems to have been closed
Craig Newman (Aug 06 2021 at 12:34):
From @Scott Robertson (note that Direct addresses may have a different solution as noted above) :
Of the available 0202 values, and the existing examples, Internet is the most appropriate. Also noting that “NET” (Network (email) Address) was deprecated from Table 0201 in v2.6.
Note that email, website URLs, various handles (LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), DIRECT addresses, and more(?) would all be “Internet”.
Craig Newman (Aug 06 2021 at 19:47):
It looks like DSM has been added to the UTG build site for table 0201 - http://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/UTG/CodeSystem-v2-0201.html
Original InM approval minutes: https://confluence.hl7.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=97482379
Nick Radov (Aug 06 2021 at 19:49):
As noted in other comments some vocabulary changes are probably needed. But as a practical matter today the current implementation convention is to use "Internet" for regular SMTP addresses.
Hans Buitendijk (Aug 09 2021 at 17:29):
To my knowledge, that was already approved and done.
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