Williamtfgoossen at cs.com wrote:
> In een bericht met de datum 8-1-2006 21:31:57 West-Europa
> (standaardtijd), schrijft gfrer at luna.nl:
>
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>> Information is exchanged in communities.All clinical information
>> belongs to the healthcare domain.
>>
>>
>> When clinical concept models (Archetypes) are expressed using an Open
>> International Standard like the CEN/tc251 Archetypes,
>> both the Archetype expression and the constituting clinical concept
>> models are not owned in a commercial sense.
>>
>>
>> Gerard
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> Sorry to be late in response, but this comment is only partly true.
> After having made about 150 archetypes for use in HL7 v3 messages
> (technical transition being no issue at all, clinical material is), we
> have encountered several issues.
Hi William,
I didn't know anyone had made archetypes for HL7v3 (except our one test
archetype). Can you provide a URL to them?
>
> Not all clinical information belongs to the healthcare domain. Many
> instruments and scales are copyrighted and require a licencing fee.
> Use in EHR or message is in that case no different from paper versions
> or dedicated software. This is similar to use of vocab which is or is
> not copyrighted.
Can you give an example of such a problem?
>
> Use of CEN / ISO or OpenEHR does not solve this issue, neither does
> HL7: the clinical content can be owned in commercial sense.
- thomas beale
