Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care

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Reference Model Abstract Class: ENTITY

Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care > LRA Reference Models > lra > technical > participants > ENTITY

A class to represent an instance or a type of person, organisation, group, place or device independent of any role the entity may play (e.g. subject of care, health care commissioning organisation, etc.). An entity may either be physical (e.g. person, place or device) or conceptual (e.g. organisation or group) in nature. In both cases, however, the identity of any instances is expected to be recognizable over some extended interval of time [http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/toplevel.htm].

Attributes

Name Data type Occurs Description
determinerCode CS 1..1 A coded representation of whether this entity is a class or an instance. Supports the logical representation of:
  • HL7 v3 RIM: Entity.determinerCode
name EN 0..* An attribute to represent an entity's name. Supports the logical representation of:
  • HL7 v3 RIM: Entity.name, Entity.desc


Constraints

Type Name Specification
determinerCode LRA vocab LRA Inv: Type inv: determinerCode.code.oclIsTypeOf(<a href="$element://{62A20F3D-EDB2-41aa-AA13-DE07FA90DF66}"><font color="#0000ff"><u>LraEntityDeterminer</u></font></a>)

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