Documentation: An identifier that uniquely identifies a thing or object. Examples are object identifier for HL7 RIM objects, medical record number, order id, service catalog item id, Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), etc. Instance identifiers are defined based on ISO object identifiers

Superclasses

• DataValue

Subclasses

• None

Types

• HL7_Data_Type

Template Slots
	Slot Name	Documentation	Type	Cardinality
	assigningAuthorityName	A human readable name or mnemonic for the assigning authority. The Assigning Authority Name has no computational value. The purpose of a Assigning Authority Name is to assist an unaided human interpreter of an II value to interpret the authority. Note: no automated processing must depend on the assigning authority name to be present in any form.	String	0:1
	effectiveTime	Time during which the information is valid	TimeInterval, Function, VMR_Query, Variable	0:1
	extension	A character string as a unique identifier within the scope of the identifier root.	String	0:1
	label	A short human readable string indicating the content of the instancehuman-readable string for the instance	String	0:1
	nullFlavor	If a value is an exceptional value (NULL-value), this specifies in what way and why proper information is missing.	Class	0:1
	root	A unique identifier that guarantees the global uniqueness of the instance identifier. The root alone may be the entire instance identifier.	ObjectIdentifier	1:1
	type	"type" epresents the fact that every data value implicitly carries information about its own data type. Thus, given a data value one can inquire about its data type	CodedValue	0:1

Own Slots
	Slot Name	Value
	alias	II
	semantic_properties	ST extension; UID root; ST assigningAuthorityName; BL equal(ANY x);
	:ROLE	Concrete
	:SLOT-CONSTRAINTS

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