3.10 Medical Equipment
The template identifier for the medical equipment section is 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.7.
The Medical Equipment section defines a patient’s implanted and external medical devices and equipment that their health status depends on, as well as any pertinent equipment or device history. This section is also used to itemize any pertinent current or historical durable medical equipment (DME) used to help maintain the patient’s health status. All pertinent equipment relevant to the diagnosis, care, and treatment of a patient should be included.
The ASTM CCR defines medical equipment using the same data objects and constraints as for Medications.
CONF-371: CCDSHOULD contain exactly one and SHALL NOT contain more than one Medical Equipment section (templateId 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.7). The Medical Equipment section SHALL contain a narrative block, and SHOULD contain clinical statements. Clinical statements SHOULD include one or more supply activities (templateId 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.34) and MAY include one or more medication activities (templateId 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.24).
3.10.1 Section conformance
CONF-372: The medical equipment section SHALL contain Section / code.
CONF-373: The value for “Section / code” SHALL be “46264-8” “History of medical device use” 2.16.840.1.113883.6.1 LOINC STATIC.
CONF-374: The medical equipment section SHALL contain Section / title.
CONF-375: Section / titleSHOULD be valued with a case-insensitive language-insensitive text string containing “equipment”.
3.10.2 Clinical statement conformance
The ASTM CCR defines medical equipment using the same data objects and constraints as for Medications. See section 3.9 Medications for details.