HL7 v3 Datatypes release 2

The HL7 v3 Comitee ha published the first draft of Release 2 for HL7 datatypes. It is still a draft but there are a number of interesting changes.

One of them concerns translation of concept labels and names.

The ED and its specialization ST (string) have now a SET of ED/ST called "translation".
This means that any attribute of type ST may have a set of other STs, each one representing a translation in a different language. (the ST type already had a language field if I remember well)

more details at the ballot page: Ballot September 2007

and some comments at the wiki: HL7 wiki


Now we have to see what the comitee decides about these datatype issues...