Hi, I have a question, maybe a stupid question, don't hesitate to tell me (I can handle that), as long as you give the answer with it.
Today I had the opportunity to have a good look at HealthOne, a GEHR system, many on this list will know it. One thing looked smart to me. They have a kind of Dictionary with 6000 words, (also these words are possibly related to each other, that makes it an extra strong feature). The relationship between the words is not hard coded and is not stored in medical-records, so if the relationship changes, nothing breaks, even if a word from the dictionary will be deleted (which will not easily happen), nothing breaks. The advantage is that always the same word is used when storing something, f.e. "Weight" Maybe OpenEhr has such a feature also. or does it depend on archetypes to force the same semantics. This seems dangerous to me, because when exchanging medical information, in an other Archetype weight can be defined as another word, a synonym, f.e. "Bodyweight" If one has an archetype which calculates the BMI (body mass index), it could not work on another OpenEhr system that has used (some time) another archetype to store the "Weight". Or am I completetely misunderstanding the issue, and is it in fact a non-issue. Please explain to me. Thanks in advance Kind regards Bert Verhees
