Yes you're right. We need to allow snomed units there etc. but we use quantity for more than openehr does, so I thought you might be able to just have ucum. So you might as well copy FHIR then
Grahame > On 18 May 2016, at 7:22 PM, Ian McNicoll <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org
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