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Chapter 03: Patient Administration

Patients arriving, moving and leaving.

Admissions, discharges, transfers, registrations and demographic corrections: the ADT family. It is the busiest interface in most hospitals, because almost every other system needs to know who the patient is and where they are.

What is in this chapter

Message types defined here

Segments defined here

These 12 segments are defined in chapter 03. Messages in other chapters may still carry them.

Trigger events

A trigger event is the thing that happens in the hospital and causes a message to be sent. Chapter 03 defines 68 of them.

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