On 06/04/2007, at 6:06 AM, Jon David Patrick wrote:
The patient may well be the primary focus of the data record but the
physician and their needs is the primary focus of the "information
system"
True. That's EMF, eigen motivational force.
kuang
jon
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Jon Patrick
Chair of Language Technology
Australian R&D Centre for Health Informatics
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
Quoting Richard Hosking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
We are treating the patient as the primary focus for the record,
which
is logical most of the time. Maybe we should look at other ways
?condition
R
Tim Churches wrote:
Jon David Patrick wrote:
My motivation for using EMF is to bring into the foreground the
range
of
issues that "electronic" introduces to its management and
manipulation.
Following this line of argument and Tim's point about images the F
should
stand for Folder, so EMF is Electronic Medical Folder.
But a folder is a bit of bent cardboard... and X-rays are kept in
envelopes.
I remain unconvinced that there is anything wrong with the term
"medical
record" or "health record", electronic or otherwise.
I can understand Richard's frustration with archetypes and their
slow
arrival but I don't think that is the result of trying to get at
the
fundamental aspects of the "system" to be modelled but rather it
is an
attempt to model a very large volume of detail, so that they are
caught in
the trees without seeing the forest.
They seem to be developing a system for precisely and formally
describing the cellular structure of the veins on the back of the
leaves
on the trees in the forest. It is a lengthy process...
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