Sorry, I was not clear enough. I meant: if it could be shown that certain patters over time corresponded to certain morbidities, then in new patients (as yet undiagnosed) these patterns could be detected early on.
- thomas On 24/10/2010 21:30, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:58:31AM +0100, Thomas Beale wrote: > >> I think that the 'pebbles& nuggets' characterisation is probably >> right, although I don't think anyone knows what the balance is, > It isn't even easy to (sometimes not even possible) to know > what are the pebbles and what are the nuggets. > > In fact, pebbles may turn into nuggets. > >> I think that what will be needed in the future is a way of filtering >> out the useless pebbles on the way so to speak. Perhaps when data >> were archived onto slower media. I wonder if anyone has seen research >> to indicate how far back data might be useful based on specific >> morbidities? > That probably wouldn't be useful because we don't yet know > which morbidities are going to be relevant for a given > not-yet-patient. > > Karsten -- Ocean Informatics *Thomas Beale Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics <http://www.oceaninformatics.com/>* Chair Architectural Review Board, /open/EHR Foundation <http://www.openehr.org/> Honorary Research Fellow, University College London <http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/> Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer Society <http://www.bcs.org.uk/> Health IT blog <http://www.wolandscat.net/> * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101025/17f6b8fc/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ocean_full_small.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5828 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101025/17f6b8fc/attachment.jpg>
