PID Types

Patient identification shemes

Waht is a PID Type?

PID (Patient IDentification) Type is a scheme of identification of the Patients. Depending on a country where iLab is used, different kinds of PID Types are applicabble. Ussually, PID types are National Identifiers. The pair PID Type and PID are unique in iLab.

Anonymous Patients

Anonymous Patient in iLab is refered to a patient, which has not such identifier (PID Type = 0). In that case, Patient is treated as not idetified and it hasn't its own patient file in the system. Anonymous patients are per Sale, they can't be reused in different Sales. Every visit of such a person leads to creation of a new Patient object.

Supported PID Types

You can get a list of supported PID Tyoes with GET on /public/pidtypes. Here is the description of currently supported PID Types.

PID Type	Country	Native name	Encoded data
0	Any	-	None
1	Bulgaria	ЕГН	Date of birth, Gender
2	Bulgaria	ЛНЧ	None
3	Any	-	Anonymous type for animals
4	Post Yugoslavian countries	ЕМБГ	Date of birth, gender
5	Bulgaria	НАП номер	None