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
