Australian Change Request to HL7 V2.9

Australian Change Request to HL7 v2.9

CR: HL7 v2.x Table 0200 – Name Type: New code (PRF) for “Preferred Name“

2.C.2.133 0200 - Name Type

Table Metadata

Table Steward V3 Harmonization V3 Equivalent Where used Status

0200 InM TBD TBD XPN.8, PPN.10, XCN.10, Active PID-5, MRG-7

HL7 Table 0200 - Name Type Value Description Comment Level A Assigned A name assigned to a person. Reasons some organizations assign 1 alternate names may include not knowing the person's name, or to maintain anonymity. Some, but not necessarily all, of the name types that people call "alias" may fit into this category. B Birth name A name that a person had shortly after being born. Usually for 1 family names but may be used to mark given names at birth that may have changed later.

This is not for temporary names assigned at birth while a newborn is not yet named BAD Bad Name A name that was wrongly used in the past and is now maintained 1 only for the purposes of searching C Adopted Name A name acquired by adoption 1 D Customary Name Known as/conventional/the one you use 1 F Fathers Name Fathers Name ( Patronymic Name) I Licensing Name 2 K Business name A name used in a Professional or Business context. Also includes 2 writer's pseudonym, artist’s name, stage name, street name, etc

An example of use is where a person with multiple proper names (i.e. married) uses one of the particular names in a professional L Official Registry The formal name as registered in an official (government) registry, 1 Name but which name might not be commonly used. May correspond to legal name

For many people, customary name is also their official name M Maiden Name A name you had just before you got married 2 MSK Masked There is information on this item available but it has not been 1 provided by the sender due to security, privacy or other reasons. There may be an alternate mechanism for gaining access to this information.

Note: using this null flavor does provide information that may be a breach of confidentiality, even though no detail data is provided. Its primary purpose is for those circumstances where it is necessary to inform the receiver that the information does exist without providing any detail. N Nickname Nickname /”Call me” Name/Street Name 2 NAV Temporarily Information is not available at this time but it is expected that it will 1 Unavailable be available later.

Includes John or Jane Doe situations NB Newborn Name A name assigned on a temporary basis at birth. i.e. “Baby of Smith” 2 NOUSE No Longer To Be Name not to be used anymore for personal reasons 1 Value Description Comment Level Used P Name of Retained for backward compatibility only as of v2.7. 1 Partner/Spouse R Registered Name (animals only) 1

Retained for backwards compatibility only as of v2.7. Use "L" instead - has same meaning REL Religious e.g. Sister Mary Francis, Brother John 2 S Pseudonym Coded Pseudo-Name to ensure anonymity 2 T Indigenous/Tribal Indigenous/Tribal/Community Name e.g. Chief Red Cloud 2 TEMP Temporary Name A temporary name. Note that a name valid time can provide more 1 detailed information. U Unknown Unknown 1

Current status: The HL7 Table 0200 does not include a code that meets the Australian national requirement. The closet code is: D Customary Name Known as/conventional/the one you use 1

However, this is not a semantically accurate match to identifying one of the multiple names supplied by the patient as preferred name.

Justification: Healthcare providers in Australia send patient clinical documents (for example, discharge summary, referral, electronic prescription, dispense records, shared health summaries, etc) to the national national EHR repository. Patient may be known to the national national EHR repository by multiple names. One of these names is required to be identified as „preferred name“. It is one of the parameters used in disambiguition of patient identity and is one of the clinical safety requirements.