Death indicator in HL7

[malay]

Hello,

Which HL7 field is mapped or I can map in the PID segment PID.30 that can tell me whether the patient is deceased?

[jasony]

Hello malay,

According to our docummentation on HL7 Interface Specification that one of our engineers wrote (https://opendental.com/resources/HL7Mes ... eSpecs.pdf), we do not support PID segment PID.30. Please fill out a Feature Request if you would like to see the program to process this.

[malay]

I created a feature request - 15781

Any idea what is the process further?

[joes]

Be sure to vote for your feature request, otherwise it will not be visible to other users and they will not be able to vote for it. The more votes a feature gets, the more likely we are to prioritize it and implement it. We don't supply estimates on when a feature request might be implemented or guarantee that every request will become a feature. You can find more details on feature requests in our manual: https://www.opendental.com/manual/featurerequests.html

[malay]

Who gets to vote? I have a dev key but I have not votes. I have access to couple of live instances but I don't see my request in their list! So how to vote?

Can I ask here in the community to vote for my requirement?

Thanks.

[malay]

Can a person in position of authority at OD push for this? Sending appointment reminders to dead patients is the last thing anyone wants.

When I look at the feature requests list on some of the live client OD installs I have, I am unable to find my feature request.

Thank you!

[jordansparks]

Maybe when someone dies, you change the status in Open Dental. Then, if they're a non-patient, they shouldn't come through in the first place. In other words, do the same thing with a different approach. Yes, it will require staff to change the statuses, but it should be easy to run a report to see which ones to change. And there shouldn't be very many. I doubt that feature request will ever get done. We've had requests on there for 10 years. I just don't want you to get your hopes up. The reason it's not showing for others is probably because it has no votes yet.