Thanks for answer, I'll do some more thinking. Meanwhile, some more questions...
- has anyone worked with medication in the context of care plans, just as a very specific example? I have a couple of students that are working on this at the moment. Any ideas towards archetype representation? --- ?ystein Nytr? 18.01.2003 00:00:53, skrev "Sam Heard" <sam.heard at bigpond.com>: >Hi > >In the openEHR development we have been quite careful to include the >'objects' in the information model that will allow care plans. > >This is predominantly the Instruction Entry type - allowing processes to be >modelled and tracked in the EHR. It is not a process modelling formalism >(such as WfPM) - but it is (hopefully) very much in tune with what is going >on in the Guidelines and Decision Support arena. > >The challenge is to keep the information needed to determine what are the >plans for this person - and to integrate a number of guidelines. > >Then there are the archetypes - the data instances that conform to standard >clinical models. > >At present in my ontology I have a small set: > >Targets and Goals (Organiser) > Target (Evaluation) > Goal (Evaluation) >(Targets are computable statements, goals are text) >Index issues or problems (organiser) > Problem/Issue [Eval] (which can be replaced by the specialised Diagnosis >and Histological diagnosis) > Accident/Injury/Poisoning >Care to be provided (Organiser) > Notifications/recalls (Org) > Notification (Instruction) > Monitoring (Org) > Monitoring (Instruction) > Link to ongoing therapy (Link) >Participation (Org) > Participation (Observation) > >This is really a first try - there are a lot of other things that could be >in here but it is important that the care plans do not get too cluttered. > >I would be happy to keep in touch with you in this matter, > >Cheers, Sam > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
