OM3 segment
The Technical Steward for the OM3 segment is ORDERS. This segment applies to free text and other non-numeric data types. 8.8.10.0 OM3 Field Definitions 8.8.10.1 OM3-1 Sequence Number - Test/Observation Master File (NM) 00586 Definition: This field contains the same value as the sequence number of the associated OM1 segment. 8.8.10.2 OM3-2 Preferred Coding System (CE) 00636
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OM3-2 and its value arrives as OM3-1, so the receiver stores Preferred Coding System as Sequence Number - Test/Observation Master File.This page carries the OM3 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 OM3.
Every field
| SEQ | LEN | DT | OPT | RP/# | TBL# | ITEM# | Element name | Cardinality |
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| OM3-1 | 4 | NM | O | 00586 | Sequence Number - Test/Observation Master File | 0..1 | ||
| 250 | CE | O | 9999 | 00636 | Preferred Coding System | 0..1 | ||
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| 250 | CE | O | 9999 | 00637 | Valid Coded "Answers" | 0..1 | ||
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| 250 | CE | O | Y | 9999 | 00638 | Normal Text/Codes for Categorical Observations | 0..* | |
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| 250 | CE | O | Y | 9999 | 00639 | Abnormal Text/Codes for Categorical Observations | 0..* | |
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| 250 | CE | O | Y | 9999 | 00640 | Critical Text/Codes for Categorical Observations | 0..* | |
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| OM3-7 | 2 | ID | O | 0125 | 00570 | Value Type | 0..1 | |
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Message types carrying OM3
OM3 appears in 2 message structures, belonging to 1 message type.