HL7 v2.5.1 Specificationsv2.5.1

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EQU segment

The equipment detail segment contains the data necessary to identify and maintain the equipment that is being used throughout the Laboratory Automation System. 13.4.1.0 EQU Field Definitions 13.4.1.1 EQU-1 Equipment Instance Identifier (EI) 01479 Definition: This field identifies the equipment. This is the identifier from an institution's master list of equipment. The <namespace ID> identifies the institution.

The shape of one line

segmentEQU|EQU-1Equipment Instance…|EQU-2Event Date/Time|EQU-3Equipment State|EQU-4Local/Remote Control…|EQU-5Alert Level

required required in some cases optional

Count the pipes to find a field, and count the empty ones too: an empty field still holds its place. Leave out the separator before EQU-2 and its value arrives as EQU-1, so the receiver stores Event Date/Time as Equipment Instance Identifier.

This page carries the EQU field table as published and nothing beyond it. The field notes, vendor behaviour, FHIR mapping and parsing guidance that thePID page has are still to be written for EQU.

Every field

SEQLENDTOPTRP/#TBL#ITEM#Element nameCardinality
22EIR01479Equipment Instance Identifier1..1

EQU-1 is a EI, which holds 4 components separated by carets.

SEQLENDTOPTTBL#Component name
EI.1199STOEntity Identifier
EI.220ISO0363Namespace ID
EI.3199STCUniversal ID
EI.46IDC0301Universal ID Type
26TSR01322Event Date/Time1..1

EQU-2 is a TS, which holds 2 components separated by carets.

SEQLENDTOPTTBL#Component name
TS.124DTMRTime
TS.21IDB0529Degree of Precision
250CEC036501323Equipment State0..1

EQU-3 is a CE, which holds 6 components separated by carets.

SEQLENDTOPTTBL#Component name
CE.120STOIdentifier
CE.2199STOText
CE.320IDO0396Name of Coding System
CE.420STOAlternate Identifier
CE.5199STOAlternate Text
CE.620IDO0396Name of Alternate Coding System
250CEO036601324Local/Remote Control State0..1

EQU-4 is a CE, which holds 6 components separated by carets.

SEQLENDTOPTTBL#Component name
CE.120STOIdentifier
CE.2199STOText
CE.320IDO0396Name of Coding System
CE.420STOAlternate Identifier
CE.5199STOAlternate Text
CE.620IDO0396Name of Alternate Coding System
250CEO036701325Alert Level0..1

EQU-5 is a CE, which holds 6 components separated by carets.

SEQLENDTOPTTBL#Component name
CE.120STOIdentifier
CE.2199STOText
CE.320IDO0396Name of Coding System
CE.420STOAlternate Identifier
CE.5199STOAlternate Text
CE.620IDO0396Name of Alternate Coding System

Message types carrying EQU

EQU appears in 11 message structures, belonging to 11 message types.