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HCparty

The hcparty element is a generic element that aims to represent any kind of healthcare party: organization, physician, medical specialty or even IT systems.

This concept refers to the definition 3.39 given in the CEN ENV13606-4:2000 prestandard: 'organisation or person involved in the direct or indirect provision of healthcare services to an individual or to a population'. This includes sender and recipients of messages, healthcare providers, prescribers, reviewers, ... nurses, physicians, pharmacists. KMEHR has extended the CEN concept to also include medical specialties and software applications.

The major uses of this element are:

  • The sender and the receiver at the header level
  • The author at the transaction level.

Other uses are, for instance:

  • The redactor at the transaction level,
  • Specific item content.

An hcparty makes use of the next elements. Two of them are fundamental: id and cd.

id

Identifies the healthcare party uniquely.

S values : LOCAL, ID-HCPARTY, INSS

Mandatory for persons and organizations.

cd

Identifies the ‘type’ of healthcare party according to the dictionary CD-HCPARTY.

S values : LOCAL, CD-HCPARTY.

Mandatory

name

Name of the organization or system.

Optional

firstname, familyname

First name and family name for a person.

Optional

address

Home, work, … address(es) of the healthcare party.

Optional

telecom

Fax, phone, … number(s) of the healthcare party

Optional

XML examples

The following hcparty element represents an organization (more precisely a hospital).

<hcparty>
   <id SV="1.0" S="ID-HCPARTY">71071801</id>
   <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-HCPARTY">orghospital</cd>
   <name>Hôpital civil de Charleroi</name>
</hcparty>

The following hcparty element represents a software application.

<hcparty>
   <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-HCPARTY">application</cd>
   <name>application name</name>
</hcparty>

The following hcparty element represents a specialty.

<hcparty>
   <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-HCPARTY">deptgynecology</cd>
</hcparty>

The following hcparty element represents a physician. It provides two identifiers: the RIZIV/INAMI number and the INSS number.

<hcparty>
    <id SV="1.0" S="ID-HCPARTY">10082555045</id>
    <id SV="1.0" S="INSS">71050643439</id>
    <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-HCPARTY">persphysician</cd>
    <firstname>Jan</firstname>
    <familyname>Modaal</familyname>
</hcparty>

The following hcparty element represents a physical person that belongs to the administrative staff and has no INAMI/RIZIV number.

<hcparty>
    <id SV="1.0" S="INSS">59120729443</id>
    <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-HCPARTY">persadministrative</cd>
    <firstname>Jeanne</firstname>
    <familyname>Dupont</familyname>
</hcparty>