id and identifier
It is recommended to view the field "Definition" of the profile for elements "id" and "identifier".
identifier
Usually a FHIR resource is only a facade representation of one or more medico resources. As a consequence multiple medico resources can be represented by just one FHIR resource. For this reason the namespace used internally for the resources identifer reflects medicos internal usage to allow distinction.
medico defines a namespace for its identifiers.
- http://medico-emr.net/
/sid1/
Each type of medico resource is represented as a string constant under this url, e.g.
http://medico-emr.net/
/sid1/Case defines the administrative case that is represented by a FHIR encounter
http://medico-emr.net/
/sid1/ClinCase defines the clinical case that is represented by a FHIR encounter
In the FHIR resource then as an example holds the following values in identifier:
- identifier.system = "http://medico-emr.net/
/sid1/Case" - identifier.value = "123456"
This identifier makes the resource belong to customer
id
The same string constants are used with a resources' id as a prefix followed by a dash '-'. The example of the administrative case above would have the id: "Case-123456"