Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care

Discharge Summary Release 0.02

The content of this release is not comprehensive and is not fully validated and must not be used in live system implementations.

Reference Model Class: TELECOM

(Corresponds to GPIC Common Access Group) Locator for some resource (information or services) mediated by telecommunication equipment The responder of a telecom address may be an automatic service that can respond with information (e.g., FTP or HTTP services). In such case a telecom address is a reference to that information accessible through that address. A given telecom address value may have limited validity through time and may be tagged by a use code to indicate under what circumstances a specific telecommunication address may be preferred among a set of alternatives. The telecommunication address is an extension of the Universal Resource Locator (URL) that specifies as an Internet standard RFC 1738.

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