Williamtfgoossen at cs.com wrote: > In een bericht met de datum 25-9-2003 15:10:09 West-Europa > (zomertijd), schrijft hammo001 at mc.duke.edu: > > I agree with Ed in that if we can make this resource available, we > need to work on that. > I think it is OK that HL7 uses SNOMED as preferred terminology. > > However, I would be very dissapointed if this would become the only > terminology that the current v3 RIM and derivates could handle. I > believe also local, or specialty or situation specific terminologies / > vocabs etc. should be allowed in messages.
I agree - I would state even more strongly - I don't think it can be any other way. Recently, Sam did a review of our models of "Apgar result" (your favourite;-) and discovered that the terms used for various things on US and UK websites were different (e.g. the terms used for the 0,1,2 values for each of the 5 input variables). No single global terminology can deal with this problem - only capsule terminologies which are strongly bound to particular concepts can. - thomas beale - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
