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Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the DeviceComponent resource.
| DeviceComponent | |
| Definition | Describes the characteristics, operational status and capabilities of a medical-related component of a medical device. | 
| Control | 1..1 | 
| DeviceComponent.type | |
| Definition | Describes the specific component type as defined in the object-oriented or metric nomenclature partition. | 
| Control | 1..1 | 
| Binding | ComponentType: Required: RTM Management Service (Describes the type of the component) | 
| Type | CodeableConcept | 
| DeviceComponent.identifier | |
| Definition | Describes the local assigned unique identification by the software. For example: handle ID. | 
| Note | This is a business identifer, not a resource identifier (see discussion) | 
| Control | 1..1 | 
| Type | Identifier | 
| DeviceComponent.lastSystemChange | |
| Definition | Describes the timestamp for the most recent system change which includes device configuration or setting change. | 
| Control | 1..1 | 
| Type | instant | 
| DeviceComponent.source | |
| Definition | Describes the link to the source Device that contains administrative device information such as manufacture, serial number, etc. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | Reference(Device) | 
| DeviceComponent.parent | |
| Definition | Describes the link to the parent resource. For example: Channel is linked to its VMD parent. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | Reference(DeviceComponent) | 
| DeviceComponent.operationalStatus | |
| Definition | Indicates current operational status of the device. For example: On, Off, Standby, etc. | 
| Control | 0..* | 
| Type | CodeableConcept | 
| Comments | OperationalStatus for the MDS, VMD, or Channel will be bound to a specific ValueSet that is defined in its profile. | 
| DeviceComponent.parameterGroup | |
| Definition | Describes the parameter group supported by the current device component that is based on some nomenclature, e.g., cardiovascular. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | CodeableConcept | 
| DeviceComponent.measurementPrinciple | |
| Definition | Describes the physical principle of the measurement. For example: thermal, chemical, acoustical, etc. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Binding | Measmnt-Principle: Required: http://hl7.org/fhir/measurement-principle (Different measurement principle supported by the device) | 
| Type | code | 
| DeviceComponent.productionSpecification | |
| Definition | Describes the production specification such as component revision, serial number, etc. | 
| Control | 0..* | 
| DeviceComponent.productionSpecification.specType | |
| Definition | Describes the specification type, such as, serial number, part number, hardware revision, software revision, etc. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | CodeableConcept | 
| DeviceComponent.productionSpecification.componentId | |
| Definition | Describes the internal component unique identification. This is a provision for manufacture specific standard components using a private OID. 11073-10101 has a partition for private OID semantic that the manufacture can make use of. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | Identifier | 
| DeviceComponent.productionSpecification.productionSpec | |
| Definition | Describes the printable string defining the component. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | string | 
| DeviceComponent.languageCode | |
| Definition | Describes the language code for the human-readable text string produced by the device. This language code will follow the IETF language tag. Example: en-US. | 
| Control | 0..1 | 
| Type | CodeableConcept |