Thank you Thomas. This is not urinalysis but urea and electrolytes! What is the "Any Result" "data type is not set" doing here. It is, after all, urea and electrolytes, and the electrolytes are mentioned. Is this to leave room for rare electrolytes like the level of copper in the blood or iron?
Nandalal --- Thomas Beale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
