Hi OpenEHR is a great effort, but some questions remained with me yet. The two level approach to Reference Model, is undertaken to help physical implementation to remain apart and unchanged once domain level knowledge changes. So why do we have other building blocks (e.g. Demographic package or version etc.) built without using this fundamental concept and formed fixed structures. (I know that a link to an archetype exists that for example may further describe PERSON or ORGANIZATION, but this does not provide the same level of flexibility and coherence). Is there a specific reason? (except, that, elements of Demographic or versioning or .. are inherently fixed and not changing)
On the other hand, why these objects do not follow archetype structure? why they are not inherited from C_DEFINED_OBJECT? another question: why DATA_VALUE and C_PRIMITIVE do not share their basic capabilities via a common ancestor ? Best Regards -- Abbas Shojaee, M.D. Medical Informatics Consultant & IT Lead. Dubai Irani Hospital Dubai, UAE Tel: +97143440321 Cell: +971508598876, +989153172172 Fax: +973440321 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20110820/1801ce17/attachment.html>
