HL7 PID (Patient Identification) Segment（HL7规定的PID字段)

The HL7 PID segment is found in every type of ADT message (i.e. ADT-A01, ADT-A08, etc.) and contains 30 different fields with values ranging from patient ID number, to patient sex, to address, to marital status, to citizenship. The PID segment provides important identification information about the patient and, in fact, is used as the primary means of communicating the identifying and demographic information about a patient between systems. Due to the nature of the information found in the PID segment, it is unlikely to change frequently.

The fields in the PID segment are as follows:

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	RP/#	ELEMENT NAME
1	4	SI	O		Set ID – Patient ID
2	20	CX	O		Patient ID (External ID)
3	20	CX	R	Y	Patient ID (Internal ID)
4	20	CX