Dear all, I was wondering if anyone is interested/involved with reporting of cervicovaginal smears. A quite mature and stable micro terminology exists that is aimed to provide effective communication between gynecologist and cyto-pathologists and for reporting of cases: Bethesda System 2001. It had been discussed in 2001 at NCI and published at: http://bethesda2001.cancer.gov/terminology.html
I had modeled it with classical relational method and have been using it since 2002 as an add on to my Anatomic Pathology Information System. The reason I am writing this message is that I personally believe it is a good candidate for Archetype modeling. Well I had done some initial modeling but it is obvious that first it has to go into an appropriate EHR 'slot' (i.e. as a specialization of plain pathology/cytology report). And secondly my experience is that it has to be extended so as to include some practical information like type of stain used or number of glass slides and so on. Archetype specialization is a good method to embed such auxilary information items while keeping original structure and semantics of the standard. I see a huge benefit for NCI or other related organizations first to get aware of Archetypes and then adopt the methodology for proper domain knowledge governance. I would love to get your comments and contributions to design a really usable Archetype for reporting of cervicovaginal smears. Best regards, Koray Atalag, MD, Ph.D. Freelance consultant and developer skype: atalagk http://koray.pathos-web.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20071009/da275ebe/attachment.html>
