01196

New Facility

2007-05-08
Definition: This field contains a site-specific name for the new facility used by this application. To be used in conjunction with the values for the sending/receiving system and facility values in the MSH.

This field further describes the new application, NSC-8-new application. With the promotion of this field to an HD data type, the usage has been broadened to include not just the new facility but other organizational entities such as a) the organizational entity responsible for new application; b) the responsible unit; c) a product or vendor's identifier, etc. Entirely site-defined. User-defined Table 0362 - Sending/receiving facility is used as the HL7 identifier for the user-defined table of values for the first component.

Length≤30
3 components
1ONamespace ID
2C-Universal ID
3CUniversal ID Type