Concepts

Concepts are used as a canonical form of structured terminology internally within SanteDB's CDR

Example

For example, when registering a patient and setting the gender to "Male" the database record carries the canonical concept of "Male" (uuid: f4e3a6bb-612e-46b2-9f77-ff844d971198) . This UUID is consistent for all males between all installations of SanteDB permitting data portability. This concept would then be mapped to a wire-level reference term:

M if the patient is being expressed in HL7v2
male if the patient is being expressed via FHIR

This architecture isolates the SanteDB CDR from changes in wire-formats.

Prerequisites

Users should familiarize themselves with SanteDB's concept dictionary architecture prior to administering the concept dictionary.

Concepts View

The Concepts view displays the concept dictionary (installed in your copy of SanteDB). Administrators can Create, Edit, and Remove a Concept