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by nradov 3725 days ago
That healthcare industry data model is very simplistic and would not be adequate for the majority of real world use cases involving patient visits. If you have to model something in the healthcare domain then don't reinvent the wheel. Start with the HL7 RIM, and then constrain it down to what you really need.

https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?pr...

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Good point! I've yet to dig into HL7 myself, so thanks for the link.