Visit vs place of service

Thanks! There is an opportunity to improve. In the US health Care claims system, HIPAA place of service is an attribute of the visit and not caresite. Why - because it is information that is provided at the claim level.

Mapping that into higher order visits are done using omop generated vocabulary. That mapping was done by the OHDSI community in past one month and information was shared on this forum. Active roles were played by

@jenniferduryea also helped

We can improve the omop generated vocabulary in a future release if the community agrees and thinks it’s of value.

Plus - we don’t have code level best practice instructions documented in omop vocabulary. E.g. each code does not have an instruction manual - a limitation

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