Tom, this is an excellent start to a reference point for people wanting to understand the rationale for openEHR. I really look forward to seeing an openEHR wiki established so that the knowledge and discussion about this and every aspect of openEHR is captured in a way that's organised by topic rather than just by chronology and email-thread.
I found the 'Some history' section particularly useful in the way it summarises both the theoretical and practical approaches to creating health information ontologies. The only very minor suggestion I'd have is to make it easier for readers to browse these references with direct links to the cited papers or to a google scholar search for the paper. eg. Tange et al (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=10557203496653946620) Lisa Thomas Beale wrote: > Dear all, > > we have added a new page for the purpose of discussing ontologies and > openEHR, in particular aimed at improving openEHR in the future so that > it really does live up to the goal of creating truly computable > information - information can safely be used in automatic processing, > inferencing and reasoning. The page is here: > http://www.openehr.org/FAQs/t_ontology_FAQ.htm . It is set up as a > starting point, not in any way finished - just enough to get discussion > going. > > Discussion is encouraged on this mailing list. Content will eventually > be moved to the openEHR wiki when it comes online. > > happy reading, > > - thomas beale > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -- Lisa Thurston Phone +61.8.8223.3075 Skype lisathurston Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd Ground floor, 64 Hindmarsh Square Adelaide SA 5000 http://www.oceaninformatics.biz
