[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Horst, in writing my answer to you last night I have been thinking about > some of these problems through the night so hopefully this answer helps. > May I shift the metaphorical description or modelling of what we are trying > to do away from your representation first. > We think of the the "patient record" as being a "patient story" because > "records" are for structured (typically relational) storage. For us each > episode in the story is a form that is completed by someone (anyone, even > the patient). The repository then has to collate the story from the > episodes and re-present it to any enquirer when asked- that is the > retreival aspect and we call those retrievals of "passive" episodes/forms.
Speaking of which (open source, document-centric health information ssytems), this project seems worth a look - I have only just learnt of it but it seems intriguing: http://www.tolven.org Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
