Definition

A record from one of a set of designated Natural Objects representing the basic building blocks from which more complicated business logic is typically built. Each such document is assigned a Document ID that is unique within an instance of Ursa Studio.

Purpose

The concept of a Document was introduced in part to facilitate the consolidation of business logic by allowing records from different Natural Objects to be more easily collected together within a single object or measure. In particular, the Universal Patient Document Aggregator Synthetic Object -- which collects Documents from different Natural Objects together into a single table -- was created to be the primary vehicle for this kind of exercise.

For example, the logic looking for a particular set of diagnosis codes can be performed once on the Universal Patient Document Aggregator rather than multiple times (i.e., once for each of the Natural Objects that store diagnosis codes).

Documents are also used to collect records from different Natural Objects associated with the same encounter, episode, or other broader concept. For example, the Hospital Inpatient Admission Encounter Document Aggregator collects Institutional Claim Headers, Institutional Claim Service Line Items, Institutional Claim ICD Discharge Diagnoses, Professional Claim Service Line Items, and a number of other document types together in one place, making it easy to find evidence of a particular service, condition, etc., associated with that encounter type.

Related Objects

Universal Patient Document Aggregator