I think it is wrong to be too 'pure' about what constitutes health information. In this situation a heart rate archetype can be specialized for this very specific purpose, and the cadence etc is important part of the context of the observation, being part of a very detailed record relating to exertion, and should be recorded in their health record as state data. I don't see any particular problem with GPS being recorded here as well if it fulfils a specific need.
This particular specialization may not end up having international status if not broadly used, but consider that it may be used in all personal health records used by elite cyclists. The ideal is to make archetypes as broadly used as possible to facilitate interoperability, but if they need to be develope for a specific or one-off purpose, or for use within just one healthcare facility, then that is still a valid use of archetypes albeit at the cost of some 'shareability'. Heather _______________________________________________ Dr Heather Leslie Director, Senior Clinical Consultant Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd M +61 418 966 670 (in Australia) M +44 7722 064 546 (in UK) Skype - heather.leslie.oi >-----Original Message----- >From: openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical- >bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Patterson >Sent: Monday, 2 July 2007 7:31 PM >To: For openEHR technical discussions >Subject: Re: modeling non-medical data > >> But the purpose then would not be to collect data for healthcare >> purposes - i.e. this post is about the use of open EHR standards and >> technologies for to answer a scientific question? > >Well, this is dilemna I guess - it's data about a person, created >from a physical activity - but it's not a clinical observation. It >is being used for healthcare purposes, albeit with very >specialised goals - the data is used to set safe training exertion >ranges etc for the atheletes. > >I may end up doing it with an ad-hoc system - I just thought it >would be interesting to consider how it might be done using >openehr. > >Andrew >_______________________________________________ >openEHR-technical mailing list >openEHR-technical at openehr.org >http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > >__________ NOD32 2368 (20070701) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com
