Question about CSD/mCSD and multiple geographic hierarchies

Hi Carl and Luke,

We have an outstanding question from Friday’s community call. We need to be able to associate a facility against three core hierarchies, geographic, reporting/administrative and supply chain (distribution network). Can the CSD and mCSD standard represent these multiple hierarchies for a facility?

Sincerely,

Craig

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Craig Appl

Health Technical Lead

Hi Craig,

Sorry for the delayed response. In CSD, you can use the csd:organization/ to capture multiple hierarchy information. There is a csd:codedType/ (if I recall correctly) that can be used to tag the use of these hierarchies.

For mCSD - I think Luke is proposing to work on a white paper that talks though facility vs organization in HL7 FHIR as there are some subtitles there. I don’t think it has multiple hierarchy support (at least looking at the location resource). We may need to do this as an extension. Luke?

Cheers,

-carl

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Craig Appl

Health Technical Lead