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12.6 ONGOING ISSUES

In both the Problem and Goal segments a field named "Episode of Care" has been included. This field is intended accommodate an entity defined by consensus business rules that defines an episode of care.

We have issued a warning about both the Problem and Goal segments that reflects our belief that individual businesses/applications must be cognizant of and be able to handle data integrity issues that may arise from the fact that problem lists and goals lists may not have a single owner of record. Although it is not the committee’s belief that the resolution of such problems lies within the HL7 domain, this concern will be submitted to the Control/Query group for further debate.

The Patient Care Technical Committee will be addressing the following issues in the future:

1. The relationship between one problem and another problem.

2. The relationships between problems, goals and related patient care events.

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