Appointment CMETs
Patient Administration WG Changes to Appointment CMETs
At the January 2009 work group meeting the Patient Administration work group received an enhancement request for A_Appointment universal. The CMET is called universal but it contains only limited information about an appointment. In fact its description says "Used in situations where an encounter or service needs to refer back to the appointment that scheduled the event. This CMET is not intended to convey all appointment information, but just enough to identify the appointment and optionally, an appointment request."
This wiki page is to consider requirements for revised A_Appointment CMETs.
Suggestion: Use the Full Appointment RMIM (PRSC_RM010000UV) as the basis for a new A_Appointment universal CMET. That RMIM is here Full Appointment RMIM. This RMIM would require two changes to meet the expressed requirements:
- Change cardinality on Subject participation from 1..* to 0..* since the current A_Appointment CMET does NOT include the patient
- Add the code attribute to Device to permit categorizing the device type
Suggestion: Use the exiting A_Appointment universal (COCT_RM020000UV01) RMIM as the source for a new A_Appointment identified-confirmable CMET. That RMIM is her A_Appointment universal (COCT_RM020000UV01).
Note that neither the current Scheduling RMIM nor the A_Appointment CMET have any attribute-level documentation so there remains a major effort to write that documentation and add it to the models before this can go to ballot.