Does the RIM Really Protect HL7 from the Proliferation of ‘Local Segments’?
by Matthew ~ December 31st, 1969. Filed under: News.From the HL7 Terminfo forum we read the following (posted by Rik Smithies) about the extension to the RIM created by the Connecting for Health initiative in the UK:
Statement Relationships are a UK/CFH invention I believe, that hasn’t gained wide acceptance elsewhere, perhaps because there hasn’ been a strong push, perhaps because our requirements are different, and perhaps because there are other ways to achieve the same thing.
Background :A Statement Relationship is an Act that works as an Act Relationship. It’s an Act plus a pair of Act Relationships to Act References, that all stands in for a single Act Relationship.
Since it is an Act in its own right and uses ActRefs, it’s doesn’t have to be ‘in-line’ in the XML, and so can be sent separately ie. in a different message. They can have authors that are different from the Acts they relate together and can be updated or [...]
Original post by Barry Smith