ADT^A18
Merge Patient Information
Patient Administration
Used to merge current and previous patient ids. This is required, for example, when a patient has previously been registered under a new id because of an error or because there was insufficient time to determine the actual patient id. The merge event occurs when the decision is made to combine the information under either the new or old id.
The PID segment contains the surviving patient id information. The MRG segment contains the non-surviving information.
Message Types
Message Type
Trigger Structure
Return Structure
Event Flow
TriggerA18
SendADT_A18
ReceiveACK