PatientIdentifier

	Field	Type	Length	Description
1	Record Type ID	String		Indicates the record type. For this record it will always be “PatientIdentifier”.
2	Patient ID	REF		Surrogate key to a patientCorresponds to a (Patient line in the same file set)’s ID value
3	Patient Identifier	String	128	Part of Patient Natural Key Identifier. Typically, the source’s or practice’s key Identifier for a patient *Natural Key for existing patient
4	Patient Record Authority ID	REF		Surrogate Key to a Record Authority.
5	Identifier	String	128	Part of Natural Key Identifier. Typically, the source’s or practice’s key Identifier for a patient
6	Identifier Type	Term		code\|name\|namespace\|family\|ns desc
7	Namespace Identifier	String	50	Namespace identifier for the identifiers assigning authority
8	Universal Identifier	String	200	Universal identifier for the identifiers assigning authority
9	Universal Identifier Type	String	50	Universal identifier type for the identifiers assigning authority
10	Assigning Facility Term	Term		code\|name\|namespace\|family\|ns desc
11	Inserted Audit Data	Audit		Audit data for when the record was inserted/created
12	Last Modified Audit Data	Audit		Audit data for when the record was last modified
13	ID	ID		Surrogate key to an Identifier