We are developing a medical device which shall be connected to a Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS). The idea is to use HL7 messages to push measured data directly to the PDMS.
The device itself is too small to fit a convenient user interface to input the patient id. Is it possible in HL7 to transmit just the device serial number instead of the PID and let the PDMS make the connection between the device and the patient?
The device serial number should be in the PRT-10 field, not the PID segment.