Chapter 14: Application Management
Systems reporting on themselves.
Status, logs and control of the applications exchanging messages, rather than anything about a patient. The smallest chapter in the standard.
What is in this chapter
- 2 trigger eventsthe real-world things that cause one of these messages to be sent
- 3 segmentsthe lines these messages are built from, and the fields on each
- 2 code tablesthe value sets the fields in this chapter draw from
- 3 message typesNMD, NMQ, NMR
Message types defined here
NMDApplication management data message1 structure, fired by 1 trigger event.
NMQApplication management query message1 structure, fired by 1 trigger event.
NMRApplication management response message1 structure, fired by 1 trigger event.
Segments defined here
These 3 segments are defined in chapter 14. Messages in other chapters may still carry them.
NCKSystem Clock SegmentNSCApplication Status Change SegmentNSTApplication Control-Level Statistics Segment
Trigger events
A trigger event is the thing that happens in the hospital and causes a message to be sent. Chapter 14 defines 2 of them.