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RE: Fw: [emergency] RE: EDXL-HAVE spec questions

  • 1.  RE: Fw: [emergency] RE: EDXL-HAVE spec questions

    Posted 03-01-2010 15:46
    Yes Bill - there are astill a few problems to overcome - I am working with
    Google and OASIS today - I'll get you an update tonight...
    
    Thanks!
    Lee
    
    > Lee-
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    > To an non-xml expert (the last major programming I did was a patient
    > appointing  and physician scheduling system in MUMPS on an AT&T 3B2
    > mini-computer...that was more than a couple of years ago!), the sample
    > you did looks great from a functional point-of-view.  I know the Google
    > folks had some important technical questions, but from a functional
    > standpoint, I only have a couple of questions/issues to bring up:
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    > -          One small issue is that at the meeting we had on Friday, it
    > sounded to me like we need to specifically track mobile clinics.  I was
    > thinking that should be in the constrained list for FacilityType.
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    > -          On contact information, we had included some profile
    > definitions so we know what the numbers represent (e.g., PrimaryPOCName,
    > POCPhone, POCEmail...and I notice I had left out "FacilityPhone" and
    > "EmergencyPhone" as important fields to track...but probably in the same
    > list.  Just a phone number by itself can be confusing for trying to
    > decide which number is important to use depending on the situation.
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    > There are some additional thoughts, but some are more for a long term
    > discussion with the OASIS group (such as there should probably be a way
    > to formally define the country that a phone number is located in (since
    > global mobility has made it such that the country the person is located
    > in is not necessarily the county number system that you would use to
    > dial the phone) so that a receiving system can better determine what the
    > digits represent...but free text works for now!)
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    > But this looks great.  Pending the outcome of the OASIS discussion and
    > resolution of Google's issues, is the next step a profile document?
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    > -Bill
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    > From: Lee Tincher [mailto:ltincher@evotecinc.com]
    > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:23 AM
    > To: 'Sukumar Dwarkanath'; Bill Lang; kpy@google.com
    > Cc: momander@google.com; emergency@lists.oasis-open.org;
    > Denis.Gusty@dhs.gov; bill.kalin@associates.dhs.gov;
    > jeff.waters@gmail.com; sukumar_dwarkanath@sra.com
    > Subject: RE: Fw: [emergency] RE: EDXL-HAVE spec questions
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    > Sukumar - I am sorry but that is only part of the problem.
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    > The following 2 are not about the example - but real world broken
    > problems in the Schema...
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    > 1. The