Andrew, I will just point out a very basic fact in openEHR: the idea is not that the current RM will do everything for the future; indeed, the RM will slowly be added to with new data types and other useful primitive structures etc to allow proper representation of 'recorded information about a subject' (which is the scope of openEHR). I can well imagine adding a 3 or 4 coordinate data type to represent GPS position.
If what you want to record is no longer even 'recorded information about a subject' - e.g. aircraft body parts, then you need a different base reference model, and you can archetype that.... - thomas Andrew Patterson wrote: >> 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 > > -- *Thomas Beale* /Chief Technology Officer/ Ocean Informatics <http://www.OceanInformatics.biz> Chair Architectural Review Board, /open/EHR Foundation <http://www.openEHR.org> Honorary Research Fellow, University College London <http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk>
