Andrew Patterson wrote: > > > I agree that the narrative form "wins" but I think the HL7 people > would be horrified by the thought that CDA structured content > was generating textual content which could then be secondarily > changed - it is a clearly broken use case and noone would > design new software that way - but I understand that there > are some legacy systems in Australia that do it this way and > that Ocean needs to come up with solutions around this. But > I am quite keen that solutions to this particular outlying > use case don't impact on solutions to (b) and (c) unless > we all understand the ramifications. > > well, Ocean is just one vendor that has products that have to interface with Medical Director, which is the most widely entrenched GP desktop package in Australia. I think the main thing is how the semantics of data in a package like MD translates to archetyped structures, which are independent of the vendor product trying to extract data from the GP dekstop.
- thomas beale
