HealthVault Data Types

Preview: Body dimension

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We have two scenarios for this type:

  1. Infant growth is typically tracked using three measurements - weight, length, and head circumference. We have a good place to store weight, but no place to store head circumference. It's not clear whether a pediatric length should just be stored as a height, or whether it should be stored in this new type as a length, so we have included the capability to store length in this type.
  2. People working to lose weight and improve their fitness often have periodic body measurements taken, such as waist size, bicep size, or thigh size.

We've created a new type named body dimension to hold a single body measurement. A group of measurements would be linked together using related items.

 

Element Type Description
when approx-date-time The date and time of the measurement.
measurement-name codable-value The name of the measurement.
Examples: Waist size, bicep size, head circumference
value length-value The value of the measurement.

There are two separate vocabularies for measurement name.

body-dimension-measurement-names-pediatric is used to store measurements from the first scenario.

body-dimension-measurement-names is used to store measurements from the second scenario.

Published Friday, July 25, 2008 4:02 PM by ericgu
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