A name for an organization, such as "Health Level Seven, Inc."
Rationale: The Organization Name (ON) data type is much less elaborated than the Person Name data type because it was felt that the use case for distinguishing organization name parts is much weaker than for person name parts. So it was decided to keep the organization name as a simple character string.
The ON.type_cd was adopted from HL7 v2.3.1 even though, there is doubt as to the applicability of the concept "Display name"; and even though, there is doubt, whether a ticker symbol is unique for each organization (each Stock exchange, even each newspaper may have it’s own symbol.) We did not significantly redesign this from version 2.3, since any "correct" redesign would have exploded the complexity of the ON type beyond what was felt as appropriate.
A code identifying what an orgnization name is used for. It is "coded no exceptions", with the following mandatory table (from HL7 v2.3 XON):
L - Legal
A - Alias
D - Display
ST - Stock exchange
The actual name data as a simple character string.