HL7 Animal Animal 1 1 Mandatory false An animal that has relevance to the care process -usually this is for animals that are patients. Need to be able to track animals - vetinary medicine is an active user of HL7 standards Animals differ because you need to track species and strain, and also different kind of relationships - owners NonPersonLivingSubject(classCode=ANM, determinerCode=INST) Animal.id 1 1 Mandatory id false Master Resource Id, always first in all resources .id(scope=OBJ) Animal.identifier 0 unbounded HumanId true Identifier for the animal that is used to identify the person across multiple disparate systems and also for face to face identification of the person Animals are known by a variety of ids. Some institutions maintain several, and most collect identifiers for exchange with other organizations concerning the animal .scopes[Role](classCode=IDENT) Animal.name 0 unbounded HumanName true A name associated with the animal. The use code maiden does not apply. Some animals have names, which are assigned by humans for human reasons, and follow human naming patterns .name Animal.dob 0 1 Optional dateTime true The birth date for the animal Age of the animal drives many clinical processes. .dateOfBirth RIM change to support human date (time only - but is this needed in this context?) Animal.species 0 1 Optional CodeableConcept AnimalSpecies true Species for the animal Need to know what kind of animal .code Animal.strain 0 1 Optional CodeableConcept AnimalStrain true Strain for the animal May need to know the specific kind within the species .strainText Not sure why this is ED in the RIM. Should probably change to SC. Animal.gender 0 1 Optional CodeableConcept AnimalGender true Gender for the Animal For managing the animal Note that some animals have additional gender not encountered in humans? .administrativeGenderCode Animal.relatedEntity 0 unbounded false Kin, owner, care giver etc Animal.relatedEntity.id 0 1 Optional HumanId false Identifier for the entity Animal.relatedEntity.role 1 1 Mandatory CodeableConcept AnimalRelationship false Type of relationship Animal.relatedEntity.name 0 1 Optional HumanName false Name of the related entity Animal.relatedEntity.address 0 unbounded Address false An address (usually human, but may be kin) Animal.relatedEntity.contact 0 unbounded Contact false Contact details (usually for humans) Animal.extensions 0 1 Optional false See Extensions [varies] Animal.text 1 1 Mandatory Narrative false .text