Chapter 14: Application Management
This chapter covers systems reporting on their own status. It defines the messages for application status, logs and commands.
This chapter covers the applications that exchange messages, not the patients. It covers the status of an application, its logs and the commands that start or stop it. The main message type is NMD. This is the smallest chapter in the standard, and few interfaces use it.
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.