This setting is used to control the format of the patient's location of care (PV1) entry in the LinkLogic file for GE Centricity.
By default, the OriginalAbbreviation setting is not present in the onbase32.ini file. If the setting is not present, or if its value is set to 1, the location of care abbreviation will be prefixed with however many carets are needed to make the abbreviation exactly eight characters long. If the setting's value is set to 0, on the other hand, exactly three carets will be added before the abbreviation, and the abbreviation itself may be up to eight characters long with no additional carets included as part of it.