Andreas We are working with others to develop a strong demographic model. I personally believe that the links within the record should be via a relationship only (mother, brother etc) - and strong links should only be in the demographics - as there are less privacy issues here.
The medical information has to be in the EHR. Cheers, Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org > [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org]On Behalf Of Andreas Holler > Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2003 3:38 AM > To: openehr-technical at openehr.org > Subject: Family relationships > > > 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 > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
