5) insurance:health The proposal suggests values of "no", "public", "private" and "unknown".
Most of these values are not very helpful in most countries. "insurance:health=no" might be useful in the rare instance that a private clinic or facility does not directly accept any form of health insurance for payment, however this is rare. "insurance:health=public" is not very specific. This might be sufficient in a country where there is only one public, government-administered insurance plan. However, here in Indonesia there are 2 common public insurance plans in my province, so it would be much more useful to use the name of the insurance as the value, eg "insurance:health=BPJS" and "insurance:health=Papua_Sehat". In the USA there is Medicare and various local versions of Medicaid in each state, in addition to hmo-managed Medicare and Medicaid plans. "insurance:health=private" is even less useful. I don't think this tag is helpful at all, because each private insurance plan is different. Similarly, "insurance:health=unknown" should not be used, because it doesn't provide any information. This suggests a problem for counties like the USA or Germany where there are dozens or hundreds of health insurance companies with many different health plans, each of which may be accepted by a different list of physicians and health facilities. Would a USA hospital be tagged with a list of 100 different insurance company and plan combinations? This would be hard to manage and maintain by most openstreetmap mappers. -Joseph Eisenberg M.D. On 6/20/19, Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Hello Tagging Mailing List, > > We would like to bring your attention and comments on the proposal for the > staff_count:doctors and staff_count:nurses tags, which helps identify the > number of doctors and nurses at a given health facility [1][2]. The > operational_status tag, which has been proposed before and I would like to > highlight again, as this is used to document an observation of the current > functional status of a mapped feature (i.e. health facility) [3]. The > health_amenity:type tag is also being proposed, as this indicates what type > of speciality medical equipment is available at the health facility [4] and > the final tag is insurance:health which describes the type of health > insurance accepted at a health facility [5]. > > Some of these are already in use but have never been formally accepted, or > properly described as to how they should be applied, which we would like to > try and achieve if possible for the Healthsites.io project. Please take a > look at the proposal pages on the OSM Wiki, as well as the Global > Healthsites Mapping Project page [2] which is at the core of the recent > work focused on creating a health facility data model. We look forward to > discussing these proposals on the respective Wiki discussion pages. > > Kind regards, > > Mhairi > > [1] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:doctors > [2] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:nurses > [3] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:operational_status > [4] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:health_amenity:type > [5] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:insurance:health > [6] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Global_Healthsites_Mapping_Project#Tag_Proposal > > > -- > *Mhairi O'Hara* > Project Manager > mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org > @mataharimhairi > > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > web <http://hotosm.org/> > | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> > | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> > | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging