my advice from LOINC/regenstrief is that it does apply Grahame
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Thomas Beale < thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > > Something that has become clear in CIMI, and will affect openEHR, 13606 > and most likely any archetype developer is that acknowledgements of 3rd > party copyrights and trademarks need to be made. The most obvious common > one is likely to be for SNOMED CT codes in archetype bindings (Stan Huff at > Intermountain is still working on whether such acknowledgements are needed > for LOINC codes). However, it could be for anything, e.g. rights to use a > scale like Barthel or Waterlow. > > At the moment there is no dedicated place in the model for this particular > meta-data. It could just go in 'other_details' but I suspect that we need > to be more precise than that. Consider for example, the openEHR Barthel > scale archetype - it currently carries this text in the 'Use' section: > > Note: > The Maryland State Medical Society holds the copyright for the Barthel > Index. It may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with the > following citation: > Mahoney FI, Barthel D. ?Functional evaluation: the Barthel Index.? > Maryland State Med Journal 1965;14:56-61. Used with permission. > > Permission is required to modify the Barthel Index or to use it for > commercial purposes. > > This seems less than optimal, and is certainly not going to be reliably > tool-separable from the main 'Use' content, since the word 'Note:' and the > placement of this text are purely local choices. > > There is another issue here. The acknowledgement text actually included in > the archetype needs to be minimal, and as far as legally possible not > contain volatile elements that can change. Therefore, I think the general > approach needs to be as is typically done with open source licences: not > including the whole text, but including a reliable URL to the licence text > either from the issuer (e.g. Creative Commons CC-BY page) or an agreement > between the publisher and the licensor (e.g. between IHTSDO and CIMI for > the use of SNOMED CT, and details of that use). > > I have updated the meta-data page on the wiki > <http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/ADL/Knowledge+Artefact+Meta-data>to > indicate what I think is the requirement - see end of the main table. > > I am increasingly of the feeling that we need to act on this soon. > > - thomas > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at lists.openehr.org > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org > -- ----- http://www.healthintersections.com.au / grahame at healthintersections.com.au / +61 411 867 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20141113/08b791f1/attachment.html>
