Class: Originator

Description of: Originator

Class steward is Information Management (Medical Records)
The person who originates (e.g., dictated) a document. The originator may or may not be the same person responsible for authenticating the document.

OpenIssue: The functionality of this class overlaps with the functionality of the service class with its associated actors and targets. We are currently working to enhance the service class to accommodate all of the functionality of this class, at which time we anticipate deleting this class from the RIM.

Association definitions for: Originator

is_role_of (1,1) :: Person :: takes_on_role_of (0,1)

of (1,n) :: Clinical_document_header :: has_been_originated_by (1,n)