Just to add to this. Another great aspect of openEHR is the separation of the technical and medical (content) aspect.
In the clinical knowlegde manager (which Thomas already referred to) clinicians can cooperate to create archetype without have to think about the technical aspects. As for the technical people: whatever the clinicians come up with, they don't have to change any code, unless it would require a change in the reference model, which is extremely rare. Cheers, Stef Op 3 aug 2011, om 09:44 heeft Hugh Leslie het volgende geschreven: > Hi Joaquin > > Just to add another view... > > The issue of openMRS implementations having different representations of the > same thing is a common problem across clinical systems everywhere. Its this > problem that is one of the things that we are trying to solve with > archetypes. In general, what we find is that most clinical concept > representations in clinical systems are subsets (based on a use case) of a > fully specified concept. What we try to do in the archetypes is produce > the fully specified concept and then constrain it for all the use cases. The > different names that you see used for different concepts are not just > language dependent, but are also region and usage dependent. This is also > usually a matter of constraining the archetype or using a particular > terminology subset to represent the information. > > What openEHR offers openMRS is a single way of representing clinical > information that becomes a logical record architecture. If openMRS adopted > this approach, then any openMRS system could immediately share information > with any other even if the other system hadn't seen the information before. > It also means that the burden of developing high quality, clinician validated > information models is shifted away from the application developer to a global > or regional space. This is going to become more and more critical, as we try > to capture more complex clinical information and compute on it as well as > share it. > > regards Hugh > > On 3/08/2011 3:29 AM, Blaya, Joaquin Andres wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Apologies in advance if this is the incorrect email list for this topic, but >> I thought it was the most relevant. >> >> I'm a member of OpenMRS and there we are discussion a way to have users >> share the concepts (a limited form of an archetype) created in their >> systems. This means that for a single concept you could have many concepts >> from different implementations. This could be because of language or because >> different words refer to the same concept. For example, Gender in the US >> might be Sex in another country and Sexo in spanish. >> >> I would like to see if OpenEHR has solved this problem so that perhaps >> OpenMRS could begin to use archetypes. >> >> Thanks >> >> Joaquin >> >> om > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20110803/3141c7b3/attachment.html>
