Hi Grahame, For the use case raised, I agree, but there other considerations e.g. Dose units and other non-UCUM code use - in the UK there is a desire to use SNOMED terms for dose units.
FHIR has human + code + system for quantity units, I think? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 office +44 (0)1536 414994 skype: ianmcnicoll email: [email protected] twitter: @ianmcnicoll Co-Chair, openEHR Foundation [email protected] Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics Ltd. Director, HANDIHealth CIC Hon. Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL On 18 May 2016 at 10:11, Grahame Grieve <[email protected]> wrote: > That's overkill - just have two fields, human and computable units. > > Grahame > > On 18 May 2016, at 7:05 PM, Daniel Karlsson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So, right now the DV_QUANTITY.units is a String, perhaps it should be > DV_CODED_TEXT? > > /Daniel > > On 2016-05-18 10:25, Bakke, Silje Ljosland wrote: > > This imposes a larger implementation burden on the systems who will have > to be able to read UCUM codes and show the corresponding symbol instead of > the code, which in many cases is not readable to clinicians. > > > -- > Daniel Karlsson, PhD, sr lecturer > Department of Biomedical Engineering/Health informatics > Linköping university > SE-58185 Linköping > Sweden > Ph. +46 708350109, Skype: imt_danka, Hangout: [email protected] > > <daniel_karlsson.vcf> > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >
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