Contact Purpose CodeSystem
| Defining URL: | http://terminology.hl7.org.au/CodeSystem/contact-purpose |
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Name: | ContactPurpose |
| Title: | Contact Purpose |
| Status: | draft |
| Content: | All the concepts defined by the code system are included in the code system resource |
| Definition: | Purpose of contact. |
| Publisher: | Health Level Seven Australia (Patient Administration) |
| OID: | 2.16.840.1.113883.2.3.4.1.2.19 |
| Content Mode: | Complete |
| Copyright: | HL7 Australia© 2018+; Licensed Under Creative Commons No Rights Reserved. |
| Case Sensitive: | true |
Content
This code system http://terminology.hl7.org.au/CodeSystem/contact-purpose defines the following codes:
| Code | Display | Definition | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|
| after-hours | After Hours | Contact to be used during an after hours period as determined by the contact entity. An after hours period is a period of time outside of normal operating periods of the entity or service. | yes |
| medical-record | Medical Record | Contact for medical/clinical records including provision of results to a practitioner or the correction of a clinical record. | yes, minor discussion on term medical/clinical |
| general-emergency | General Emergency | Contact to be used in a general emergency | |
| clinical-emergency | Clinical Emergency | Contact to be used under emergency conditions to contact a healthcare practitioner? or just 'clinical emergencies'? If the later is this then subsumed by emergency? When used in a Healthcare institution context, this would be a line for urgent medical enquiries etc. When used in a Patient contact context, this could be to a specific medical specialist | child of emergency (may be internal?) |
| legal | Legal | Contact for legal concerns or enquiries. | yes |
| privacy | Privacy | Contact for concerns or enquiries relating to privacy of information. | yes |
Comments:
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I would have thought that this was a common need among FHIR users from other countries as well as Australia. Is there interest in this elsewhere? Is there an international argument why it should be pushed into an extension, I find it hard to believe the 80/20 rule could be used here since it all seems pretty useful. Is there alternative modelling used elsewhere? 
Posted by jdavison at 20 Aug, 2020 09:34
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Except for the actual structure in Organization.contact.purpose I have not found a core structure / extension for use. I would be pretty happy if we found codes and or structures that we could adopt. There seem to be various localised extensions around the world that extend or qualify contact point including the NHSD contact purpose or the swiss extension http://fhir.ch/ig/ch-crl/StructureDefinition-ch-crl-organization-contact-functionofcontactperson.html.
Posted by danielletavaresrixon at 20 Aug, 2020 09:47
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