Isabel Rom?n Mart?nez wrote: > Dear all: > My name is Isabel Rom?n. > I?m working in a demographic server. In a first version only Person > information is considered and I?m using Demographic Reference Model to > represent it. I would like to know if the Reference Model is going to > be extended with PERSON attributes or if it is only a implementation > feature. > And another question. Do you have some references to works in this > line with public code? > I?ve written the RM in owl (a first version), you can see it in > http://trajano.us.es/~isabel/EHR/ > <http://trajano.us.es/%7Eisabel/EHR/> If some one of you are working > with ontologies languages may be interested in reusing or extending it, > feed back from you will be very valuable. > > Thanks to all > Isabel Rom?n >
this is a somewhat old post which I just realised no-one replied to. The question above I believe is essentially: is openEHR going to add a few hard-wired features to classes like PERSON? You will note that there are already some nearly hard-wired features - namely 'identities' and 'contacts' (inherited from PARTY). It always seems tempting to try to add more features to classes like PERSON, e.g. "name", "date_of_birth" and so on. The trouble is that finding a globally agreed set of definitions for most such attributes is very difficult. Attributes which I think there might be a possibility of agreeing on for PERSON might be: date_of_birth : DV_DATE place_of_birth: DV_TEXT sex: DV_CODED_TEXT // note that this clinically has at least the values - 'male', 'female', 'indeterminate', 'intersex', ... date_of_death: DV_DATE A function 'name: STRING' could be defined as being generated from one of the identities (do we mean legal name, performance alias, nickname?...), however, it should not be defined as a data attribute, because names are commonly stored in pieces (first names, titles, family names, ...). By extension, do people want to try and add certain hard-wired attributes to other classes in the openEHR demographic information model? Other attemptes in the standards arena have rarely met with global agreement, e.g. the CEN and HL7 models of PERSON. I am inclined to model nearly all if not literally all attributes in demographic archetypes which then become the object of standards discussions. Thoughts on the above? - thomas beale -- ___________________________________________________________________________________ CTO Ocean Informatics (http://www.OceanInformatics.biz) Hon. Research Fellow, University College London openEHR (http://www.openEHR.org) Archetypes (http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/adl.html) Community Informatics (http://www.deepthought.com.au/ci/rii/Output/mainTOC.html) - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
