Christopher Feahr wrote:
>Tim, >Data mining and ad hoc queries does not sound out of scope to me. >Sounds like a primary use for the EHR-data. > well, a "secondary" use - clinical patient care is the "primary" use;-) (sorry - just had to say that since it is in most papers, projects you will find on the EHR). But I agree largely - you can't have big epidemiological or research queries from the CDC or somewhere killing your production hospital database - that's what data warehosing is for - transforming data for efficient population querying , and separating out the resources for the primary production use of the information from all other uses.. - thomas beale - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

