After studying the openEHR demographic model, I am stuck now in the section about demographic relationships. Until now my objective for incorporating family relationships into the EHR was to add an interface at the family history archetype, i.e. in the Evaluation Concept for Family History. However it seems to me that I have two possibilities representing family relationships, either through the Family History archetype (inside the EHR) or through the demographic model (outside the EHR). I can see the problem of incorporating relationships into the Family History archetype, which is that not all subjects of care will have this archetyped information stored in their EHR. For the other approach through the demographic model, all subject entities can be linked with each other representing - as you indicate in the section - a family network, depending on the implementation of the model.
My question: Do you also see this two possiblities for family relationships? How would the reference model being used for interpatient relationships? A third way, however would be to create another archetype, which supplies the concepts for inter-family relationships, even the family members do not yet have a problem.... Any thoughts on thgis topic are highly appreciated. Thanks, Andreas Hoeller Vienna, Austria - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
