FAMILY_HX
Description:
The FAMILY_HX table contains data recorded in the family history contacts entered in the patient's chart during a clinical system encounter. Note: This table is designed to hold a patient's history over time; however, it is most typically implemented to only extract the latest patient history contact.

Primary Key
Column Name Ordinal Position
PAT_ENC_CSN_ID 1
LINE 2

Column Information
Name Type Discontinued?
1 LINE INTEGER No
The line number to identify the family history contact within the patient’s record. NOTE: Each line of history is stored in enterprise reporting as its own record; a given patient may have multiple records (identified by line number) that reflect multiple lines of history.
2 MEDICAL_HX_C_NAME VARCHAR No
The category value associated with the Problem documented in the patient’s family history.
May contain organization-specific values: Yes
3 MEDICAL_OTHER VARCHAR No
The custom reason for visit or problem entered when the clinical system user chooses "Other" as a family history problem. NOTE: The comment is stored in the same item as MEDICAL_HX_C but is delimited from the response "Other" by the comment character, "[". The EPIC_GET_COMMENT function returns everything after the comment character.
The category values for this column were already listed for column: MEDICAL_HX_C_NAME
4 COMMENTS VARCHAR No
Free-text comments entered with this problem. This column may be hidden in a public enterprise reporting view.
5 PAT_ENC_CSN_ID NUMERIC No
A unique serial number for this encounter. This number is unique across all patients and encounters in the system.
6 FAM_HX_SRC_C_NAME VARCHAR No
This item contains the source of information for a patient's family medical history.
May contain organization-specific values: Yes
Category Entries:
Provider
Patient
Parent
Legal Guardian
Proxy User
Automatically reconciled from patient
Automatically reconciled from proxy
Automatically estimated from flowsheet responses
7 RELATION_C_NAME VARCHAR No
This is the category value associated with the family member who has or had this problem. An example might be sister, brother, or mother.
May contain organization-specific values: Yes
8 FAM_RELATION_NAME VARCHAR No
This is the first and/or last name of the patient's family member. This column is free-text and is meant to be used together with the RELATION_C category to form a unique key for the family member. If no name is entered this column will display an abbreviation of the family relation type beginning with ##.
9 AGE_OF_ONSET NUMERIC No
This item contains the age of onset of the patient's family member that is documented with a history of a problem.
10 FAM_MED_REL_ID INTEGER No
This item contains the unique ID of the patient's family member relationship for medical history.
11 FAM_MEDICAL_DX_ID_DX_NAME VARCHAR No
The name of the diagnosis.
12 AGE_OF_ONSET_END NUMERIC No
When the age of onset for a family member's history of a problem is documented as an age range, this item contains the age at the end of the range.