Monday, March 17, 2008

The Model Interchange Format (MIF)

The MIF contains conformance rules for nodes
The MIF defines what should be attributes and child nodes
The MIF declares the pan-Canadian data types for HL7 attributes, however, it does not define then anywhere
It declares the code strength (which I don’t think is accurate, especially since all the vocab has not been released)
It declares the code domain, but the codes themselves are not in machine readable format


In conclusion, I don’t believe that the MIF can fully validate a message instance of an HL7 message.

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