Dear Andrew, There is a very substantial overlap between OpenEHR and EN13606. Both technically and personally.
But there are differences. EN13606 EHRcom is the result of an European/Australian consensus process and can not be equated with OpenEHR. EN13606 can be used to map to legacy systems and interact with OpenEHR conformant systems. OpenEHR is a much richer specification that can be used to produce an EHR-system with real plug-and-play semantic interoperability. Within the framework of OpenEHR it is (will be) possible to use the CEN EHRcom extract. For all practical purposes I consider OpenEHR as a specific implementation specification of EN13606 with some important additional features. My advice is to use OpenEHR as an implementable specification and make and use archetypes derived from OpenEHR. The status of EN13606 EHRcom is that the parts 1,2,3 and 4 are stable. Part 1 is final and will be published soon, I expect. Parts 2,3 and 4 will be voted on soon and published next year. It is expected that soon ISO will adopt these standards as well. Your technical comments I will refer to Dipak Kalra the task force leader. ADL and part 2 of the EN13606 are identical. Gerard Freriks -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252 544896 M: +31 653 108732 On 3-nov-2006, at 10:27, Andrew Patterson wrote: > Apologies that this is perhaps not the right forum, but > I sense there is a fair crossover between the CEN and > openehr communities so I thought this might reach > the right ears.. > > I have been perusing the draft cen 13606-1 specification > in my exploration of all things openehr related (given the > large overlap in ideas.. two level modelling etc). I was > wondering if anyone had any ADL archetypes based on > the 13606-1 reference model? I am going to hand craft > some as an experiment but would love some that > are more clinically valid than my idle musings.. > > On related notes - > > I do not normally have any access to cen materials and > am completely in the dark as to the whole cen standards > process, but I take it that 13606-1 is in draft mode, awaiting > a vote on acceptance? From my brief reading, it seems > not ready for 'prime time'.. two that immediately came to > my attention were the ED support type that has > a compulsory "language" attribute (which means what > for a photo?) and URI reference? Maybe the UML diagram > is wrong or something but it seems to indicate that both > of them compulsory, when surely they have to be optional > attributes? (I have just read it again, and in their defence, it > does say they are waiting for a new datatypes standard to > be published so perhaps they have not looked too much at > this area).. > > But even the examples seem confused.. > > annex C has an 'informative' sample > > ehr_system.extension = Whittington > ehr_system.assigningAuthorityName = NHS > ehr_system.valid_time = 1/1/1990 - 1/1/3000 > ehr_system.root.oid = 9876543211 > > Why would any health standard be promoting an example > using 'magic' dates to indicate infinite time ranges?? Surely > these are open ended intervals rather than actually statements > that this ehr_system is going to cease to be valid in the year 3000? > I know its just a sample, but if the sample doesn't show the > proper techniques, what chance does any programmer reading > the spec have to do it correctly.. > > I also am under the impression that 13606-2 will be an > effort to standardise the expression of archetypes? Is ADL > in its current form a contender for that standard? How far along > is the standards process and are there any avenues to > review the work (for non-europeans)? > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20061103/d30d6990/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical
