CEN/TC251 has an european standard: General Purpose Information Components. These 170 GPICS are proto-archetypes that can be contrained into archetypes.
One of those is the proto-archetype for Patient demographic information. In the institute where I work we used the GPICS to make an information domain model of one sector in Dutch Healthcare: pediatrics. All the GPICS we needed we available. One GPIC had to be changed in order to become usable in the Netherlands: the demographic one! Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands +31 252 544896 +31 654 792800 On 11 Mar 2005, at 01:26, Thomas Beale wrote: > > You will be unsurprised to learn that we agree with USM Bish, and that > names and other demographic entities should be archetyped. We don't > seem to have a person name archetype yet, but you will get the idea > from the location address one at > http://www.openehr.org/repositories/archetype-dev/latest/adl/ > archetypes/openehr/demographic/openehr-demographic- > address.location_address.draft.html. > > I believe the approach of trying to have these as types in a RIM is > problematic, for exactly the reasons Bert mentions. > > - thomas beale > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1385 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050311/f3b8d219/attachment.bin>

