ZFP: Additional Patient Name field (Ability to handle two names (legal name + display name)

There is the need to show an additional patient name:

• Patient Name at birthday ; this is required for example as a parameter to check INS, CF calculation. This is also useful for those countries were the patient may change name after marriage.

• Patient preferred name: This is a feature other vendors have to show an additional Name that is the one the customer desire to use. Maybe useful in case of foreign patients with difficult Names to be pronounced.

• Patient preferred name needs to be displayed in the front-end applications (so WFM, UV, ZFP both with EA and ETP backend)

• Depending on the workflow and backend, patient preferred name is retrieved

  • from HL7 messages sent by the RIS

  • from Other Patient Names DICOM tag ((0010,1001))

• Whenever sending a DICOM file to the outside (ie response to a DICOM Q/R), the patient preferred name information needs to be put in the Other Patient Names DICOM tag ((0010,1001))