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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-36033

Extend ContactPointSystem for messengers

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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • R4
    • Modeling & Methodology
    • Organization
      Patient
      Practitioner
    • 2.24.0.15 ContactPoint
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      The definition of URL states: "A contact that is not a phone, fax, pager or email address and is expressed as a URL. This is intended for various institutional or personal contacts including web sites, blogs, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Do not use for email addresses."  Therefore, the URL already encapsulates the concept of "messenger".  If additional clarification for the messenger URL is needed, an extension could be defined and used to convey necessary details.

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      The definition of URL states: "A contact that is not a phone, fax, pager or email address and is expressed as a URL. This is intended for various institutional or personal contacts including web sites, blogs, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Do not use for email addresses."  Therefore, the URL already encapsulates the concept of "messenger".  If additional clarification for the messenger URL is needed, an extension could be defined and used to convey necessary details.
    • Lloyd McKenzie / AbdulMalik Shakir : 2 - 0 - 0

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      The ContactPointSystem value set, with the Required binding, currently is: 

      phone | fax | email | pager | url | sms | other

      If a person or organization decides to use a messenger - for example this link - https://t.me/username is for Telegram - the most applicable code is "url" but it hides the fact that the .value value is not a typical website but actually a link to person's messenger address.

      The proposal is to add a "messenger" code to denote this type of communication systems.

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