ISBO definitions

Documenting all of the business objects needed to represent the complete HL7 data element catalog is prohibitive. The following section explains how the business objects are constructed, along with noting several the special treatment required for several HL7 data elements hat do not follow traditional BO construction rules

Business object construction follows the HL7 data element structure very closely, except for the HL7_DTEncodedText, HL7_DTMA, HL7_DTNA, HL7_DTQIP, and HL7_DTUnionALL.

Note:
The rules of constructing BO from HL7 data elements are detailed in the following subsections. The naming convention adopts [] to signify optionality and <> to signify the explanation of content enclosed by the angle brackets which is not part of the required characters in the naming convention. Each business object must contain the ObjectEventID BO. For this reason, the following business objects do not specifically list that business object.

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