[dqv]

>I still struggle to always get this right.

I really like the FHIR Human Name data type[0]. It requires none of the fields... so it can represent someone without a name. It also has all the necessary fields for representing someone's name and their name in various forms and pretty much as many edge cases as possible.

The only problem is turning it into a UI that makes sense.

[0]: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html#HumanName

[mberger]

May I ask where you work that you work with FHIR?

[dqv]

I was helping someone with an appointment reminders implementation. I was googling how to communicate with practice management systems, came upon HL7, and then FHIR.

I don't do anything "real" with FHIR at my company, I just borrow concepts because FHIR does a pretty good job at encapsulating the healthcare domain.