This class is used to capture remarks about an Activity which might be made by various Practitioners or Persons during the course of that Activity.

Note that this class used to be called CommentEvent. It was renamed to Annotation in May 2017, as the FHIR Annotation datatype is identical in structure and in use.
Note that this class used to contain an optional property called commentCategory, which was intended to provide an categorization of the comment for grouping purposes or to identify the situation in which the comment occured. The FHIM terminology team decided to remove this property in January 2013 as no universally standardized values could be identified for the comment category. This property may be reinstated in the future should a desired set of categories be identified.

"A text note which also contains information about who made the statement and when." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation

Attributes
Participation	author	Indicates the Person who created the comment. Note that the Person may be a Practitioner, the Patient, or a Patient's representative, which is why the datatype for this property is Participation, not PractitionerParticipation. "The individual responsible for making the annotation." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation.author[x]
String	comment	This property contains the comment text. "Contains the comment contained in the segment." - HL7 Version 2.8, NTE-3. "The text of the annotation." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation.text "May include statements about significant, unexpected or unreliable values, or information about the source of the value where this may be relevant to the interpretation of the result." - HL7 FHIR, Observation.comment
«TS» PointInTime	dateTime	The date and time the comment was entered. "Indicates when this particular annotation was made." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation.time

 author

Public Participation author

Indicates the Person who created the comment. Note that the Person may be a Practitioner, the Patient, or a Patient's representative, which is why the datatype for this property is Participation, not PractitionerParticipation.
"The individual responsible for making the annotation." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation.author[x]

Constraints:

Properties:

Aggregation	None
Alias
Association
Association End
Class	Annotation
Datatype
Default
Default Value
Is Composite	false
Is Derived	false
Is Derived Union	false
Is Leaf	false
Is Ordered	false
Is Read Only	false
Is Static	false
Is Unique	true
Keywords
Lower	1
Lower Value	(1)
Multiplicity	1
Name	author
Name Expression
Namespace	Annotation
Opposite
Owner	Annotation
Owning Association
Owning Template Parameter
Qualified Name	FHIM::Datatypes::Annotation::author
Stereotype
Template Parameter
Type	Participation
Upper	1
Upper Value	(1)
Visibility	Public

 comment

Public String comment

This property contains the comment text.
"Contains the comment contained in the segment." - HL7 Version 2.8, NTE-3.
"The text of the annotation." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation.text
"May include statements about significant, unexpected or unreliable values, or information about the source of the value where this may be relevant to the interpretation of the result." - HL7 FHIR, Observation.comment

Constraints:

Properties:

Aggregation	None
Alias
Association
Association End
Class	Annotation
Datatype
Default
Default Value
Is Composite	false
Is Derived	false
Is Derived Union	false
Is Leaf	false
Is Ordered	false
Is Read Only	false
Is Static	false
Is Unique	true
Keywords
Lower	1
Lower Value	(1)
Multiplicity	1
Name	comment
Name Expression
Namespace	Annotation
Opposite
Owner	Annotation
Owning Association
Owning Template Parameter
Qualified Name	FHIM::Datatypes::Annotation::comment
Stereotype
Template Parameter
Type	String
Upper	1
Upper Value	(1)
Visibility	Public

 dateTime

Public «TS» PointInTime dateTime

The date and time the comment was entered.
"Indicates when this particular annotation was made." - HL7 FHIR, Annotation.time

Constraints:

Properties:

Aggregation	None
Alias
Association
Association End
Class	Annotation
Datatype
Default
Default Value
Is Composite	false
Is Derived	false
Is Derived Union	false
Is Leaf	false
Is Ordered	false
Is Read Only	false
Is Static	false
Is Unique	true
Keywords
Lower	0
Lower Value	(0)
Multiplicity	0..1
Name	dateTime
Name Expression
Namespace	Annotation
Opposite
Owner	Annotation
Owning Association
Owning Template Parameter
Qualified Name	FHIM::Datatypes::Annotation::dateTime
Stereotype
Template Parameter
Type	«TS» PointInTime
Upper	1
Upper Value	(1)
Visibility	Public