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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by a-priori on Sunday November 10, 2019 @04:26PM (#21500297)
What's the purpose of structured modelling of names? Why does it matter which parts are family vs given vs whatever else? Lots of the W3C International Examples they give use a `<text>` field. Why not just use that?

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes-examples.html#2.24.1.13.1

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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by nradov on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:06PM (#21502060)
It matters for collation order, if you want to show a list of patients sorted by family name.
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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by Piskvorrr on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:44PM (#21507522)
Is this a current use case, or did that just make sense 100 years ago? (As in these assumptions: "tracking actual relationships in data is Hard, and family name correlates strongly with real-world relationships") I mean, it sort of works even today, but neither of the assumptions are as strong any more.
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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by nradov on Monday November 11, 2019 @03:39PM (#21508639)
It's still a current use case for healthcare provider workflows. Also helps a lot when doing automated record linkage between different systems.
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