On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:29 +0100, Gerard Freriks wrote: > In the near future it will become clear that in order to create > semantic interoperability that flexibly can support the ever changing > requirements in healthcare the standardisation processes and the > process leading to an implementable specification will not be enough. > In addition to the above we need databases where the most recent (and > old) local context specific constraints are kept and published.
Very true. Much of the contextual relationships can be lost simply in how the information is persisted. If information is broken up too finely then it can't be put back together in the same context (based on current implementations of SQL databases) simply due to performance issues. Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Research & Development Services http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook
