The person taking responsibility for the medical content of the document. In Spain this is the regional authority in healthcare. This regional authority healthcare organization will send this to the NCP. The definition of the legal authenticator may vary accoriding to the rules set up in the framework agreement particular to each state. It may be a person or a regional authority, or an NCP.
In any case, as well described in the IG CDA R2 – "Imaging Integration: Local policies may choose to delegate the function of legal authentication to a device or system that generates the clinical document. In these cases, the legal authenticator is a person accepting responsibility for the document, not the generating device or system.”
Classification
CDA Header Level Template
Open/Closed
Open (other than defined elements are allowed)
Used by / Uses
Used by 1 transaction and 1 template, Uses 1 template
The person taking responsibility for the medical content of the document. In Spain this is the regional authority in healthcare. This regional authority healthcare organization will send this to the NCP. The definition of the legal authenticator may vary accoriding to the rules set up in the framework agreement particular to each state. It may be a person or a regional authority, or an NCP.
If there is no information, the nullFlavor attribute shall have a value of 'NI' and the "value" and "use" attributes shall be omitted, otherwise the nullFlavor attribute shall not be present, and the "value" and "use" attributes shall be present.
Optionalities and Cardinalities of the following two items shall be interpreted according to this rule: e.g. is not expected to have two nullFlavored telecom elements.
Draft