This is a routine occurrence in Emergency Medicine. Often patients have multiple identities or are in a state where their identity can only be approximated (e.g. middle aged male) due to patient condition.
Also, if someone presents in acute distress/trauma many systems use a dummy ID, which is used for orders, labs, etc. and when the patient is stabilized, family arrives, etc. their dummy registration is linked to, and subsumed by, their real identity. Finally, anonymous testing doesn't have knowledge of the patients identity, beyond that of system assigned code. Kevin _______________________________________________________ Kevin M. Coonan, M.D. kevin.coonan at utah.edu Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine NLM Fellow, Department of Medical Informatics University of Utah School of Medicine > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org > [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Tim Cook > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 2:51 PM > To: OpenEHR Technical > Subject: Re: EntityNameParts > > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 07:57, lakewood at copper.net wrote: > > > What 'use case' in Healthcare does not require precise knowledge of > > the Patient's real identity? > > Research; among others. > > -- > Tim Cook > Key ID 9ACDB673 @ http://www.keyserver.net/en/ > > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
