Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
>  The power of this approach is hard to appreciate
>   
>> until you're in a 
>> situation where lots of people have lots of things
>> they want to 
>> characterize in a system.  It allows non-developers
>> to own and 
>> augment their own notions of what data matters to
>> them, without 
>> altering the underlying database model.
>>     
>
> This is important for clinicians in different
> specialities with various interests in the specifics.
> No FOSS EMR I tried/used, except OIO, allow this to be
> done easily by users.
>
> The Concept Dictionary approach seems to be similar to
> the Archetypes approach of OpenEHR, which goes a
> further step.
>
>   
you can see a urinalysis archetype here: 
http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/archetypes/dev/html/en/openEHR-EHR-OBSERVATION.laboratory-urea_and_electrolytes.v1.html
(main page: http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/archetypes/dev/index.html)

- thomas beale


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