Jan 2015 Ballot Comment #70

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    • Type: Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive with Modification
    • Priority: Medium
    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • DSTU1 [deprecated]
    • Patient Administration
    • Practitioner
    • 5.4.4
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      The datatype of the birthDate field has been changed from datetime to Date.

      This brings it inline with the change made to Patient.

      It removes the capacity for the field to include a timezone which can actually change the date if displayed in a timezone different to that stored in the record.

      Where this field is used for identification purposes this can cause the inadvertant creation of duplicate records.

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      The datatype of the birthDate field has been changed from datetime to Date. This brings it inline with the change made to Patient. It removes the capacity for the field to include a timezone which can actually change the date if displayed in a timezone different to that stored in the record. Where this field is used for identification purposes this can cause the inadvertant creation of duplicate records.
    • Clarification
    • Non-compatible
    • DSTU1 [deprecated]

      Comments
      birthDate has a data type of dateTime.
      For Patient, we updated birthDate to be date-only and have implemeters use extensions if they're going to support time. For consistency, would it make sense to do the same for Practitioner?

      Grahame's Comments
      agree completely

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            Reporter:
            dloewenstein
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