On 16/08/2010 10:26, Ian McNicoll wrote:
>
>
> I have been having an email conversation with Sebastian Iancu of 
> Code24 about some issues concerning the design of the Demographics 
> PARTY_IDENTITY.person_name.v1
>
> http://www.openehr.org/knowledge/OKM.html#showArchetype_1013.1.477
>
> There were 2 key areas discussed:
>
> 1. In 'Person identifier' the concept name of the archetype has a 
> 'run-time constraint' allowing the archetype concept to be re-defined 
> at Template/tun-time. e.g the original name of the archetype is 
> 'person identifier' which may be re-defined i.e.

Hi Ian, I could not see the following in the archetype mentioned above.

>
> *Concept name*
>       
> Person name
> Runtime name constraint:
> /Choice of:/
>
>     * Coded Text
>           o Reporting name [The subject?s name as it is to be used for
>             reporting, when used with a specific identifier.]
>           o Newborn name [A type reserved for the identification of
>             unnamed newborn babies.]
>           o Professional or business name [The name used by the
>             subject for business or professional purposes.]
>           o Maiden name [The name used by the subject of care prior to
>             marriage.]
>           o Legal name [Registered name (Legal name).]
>           o Other name [Any other name by which the subject is known,
>             or has been known by in the past.]
>     * Free or coded text
>
> The constraint is deliberately left open (via the 'Free or coded text' 
> choice) as we felt that we could not be certain that the Code Text 
> options (derived from ISO) were universally applicable and that other 
> national name categories are likely to be required in the forseeable 
> future.
>
> The concept name constraint approach for compatibility with the 
> purpose() function in the RM class:
>
>  purpose() : DV_TEXT 
> <http://_9_0_76d0249_1109068213265_877931_4246report.html/>           Purpose 
> of identity, e.g. ?legal?, ?stagename?, ?nickname?, ?tribal name?, 
> ?trading name?. Taken from value of inherited name attribute.
>
>
> 2. A related but broader issue is how/where we should define the terms 
> for such a constraint - in the openEHR terminology, in the archetype 
> as local atcodes, or in an external terminology such as Snomed.
>

presumably in the same place as where we define things like 'family 
relationship'. Currently this is done in openEHR, because of the lack of 
a reliable alternative, but we should take this up at IHTSDO to see if 
these kind of vocabularies cannot all be done in Snomed.

- thomas beale

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: 
<http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20100820/0da7a201/attachment.html>

Reply via email to