On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 03:45, Andrew Ho wrote: > My impression was that TORCH's exported record has a direct one-to-one > mapping to TORCH's data model. If this understanding is incorrect, please > let us know where we can find a true description of TORCH's data model.
True enlightenment, for those that seek it may be found in the code. > > > If it were a data model you could tell if this was a "date" type, a > > "time string" or a "character string". > ... > > I understand that an exported record is but an example (=instance) of > the data maintained by TORCH. Thus, while it is possible to ascertain > something about the data model by looking at a part of an exported record, > what I quoted was certainly not a full description of the much larger > TORCH data model! Nor was it even a description of one element of the data model. > For the purpose of illustrating the embedding of terminology within an > EMR (which was my purpose in mentioning this fragment of TORCH exported > record), I thought it sufficient to show just a small example. You were incorrect as there was no example of any standard terminology embedding at all. There "may" have been an example of of the use of a coding system (ICD) elsewhere in the export. > --> In this example, "social history" is one of the "terminology" used by > TORCH. Will TORCH reconcile this "social history" term with similar > terms (if any) in SNOMED CT ? Hmmmmmmm....that's top secret stuff. <vbg> > If so, how do you plan to carry out the > mapping / translation between the two? .....with due diligence, professional integrity and the knowledge that I have a clue what I am doing. > (As you can see, answering these questions may or may not require a full > review of the entire TORCH data model. :-) ...and your point is? > Just so that you won't mistakenly conclude that I am singling out TORCH, > GnuMed, OSCAR, TkFP, and other EMR's will also have to address the same > challenge. I see that the OIO project is missing from this list, do you (or whomever is writing the OIO code) not intend to, "...address the same challenge."? > Your willingness to share your thoughts on this can help many > of us plan a better strategy. Really? How so? --tim
