Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-22 Thread Gerard Freriks
Have 'all' sit together? 'All' never write one good novel. 'All' do not invent E=MC2 'All' do not design and fill a coding system such as SNOMED with all the codes 'All' will use semantic interoperability artefacts such as SNOMED 'All' by using it will validate and maintain the codes in for

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-22 Thread Stefan Sauermann
Dear Karsten, all, We are at the moment running a working group that defines a pathology report for Austria, as a means to exchange results across organisations. We explicitly do not cover the detailed workflows that lead to the report. Tomorrow there will be a meeting on this topic in Germany

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-21 Thread Jussara macedo
Hello, that?s what CKM and the openEHR community are for! Regards Jussara R?tzsch Md, MSc Director, OpenEHR Foundation Owner, Giant Global Graph ehealth Solutions http://www.giantglobalgraph.com.br On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Stefan Sauermann sauermann at technikum-wien.at wrote:

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-20 Thread Koray Atalag
-Original Message- From: openehr-clinical-bounces at lists.openehr.org [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Ian McNicoll Sent: Monday, 20 August 2012 5:07 a.m. To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue I am

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-20 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 18 aug. 2012, om 10:41 heeft Gerard Freriks het volgende geschreven: On 17 Aug 2012, at 19:38, Thomas Beale wrote: Decisions of medical users do not depend on the fact that an item is classified as observation or evaluation. maybe not so much on how it is classified, but on

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-20 Thread Jussara macedo
As I said it?s a matter of context. Jussara R?tzsch Md, MSc Director, OpenEHR Foundation Owner, Giant Global Graph ehealth Solutions http://www.giantglobalgraph.com.br On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Stef Verlinden stef at vivici.nl wrote: Op 18 aug. 2012, om 10:41 heeft Gerard Freriks

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-20 Thread Stef Verlinden
I agree that we need a practical solution and that we can't change (at least not overnight) what has been going on for ages. As an intermediate solution, it would be great if it is possible to see on which facts a diagnosis is based (or a differential diagnose is rejected) and which protocol

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
and panic attacks/hyper ventilation. These were my inferences about the process inside the patient system. Only one was true and had to found out via trial and error diagnostics and trial treatments. I fear that the best we can do in most circumstances (as GP) is to code 'Reasons for ..' and

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-19 Thread Gerard Freriks
It must be clear that one is able to define these terms. But others do the same and do it differently. Examples: Symptom: 1- an observable as percieved and communicated by a patient 2- an observable fact about the patient (system) 3- an observable fact about the patient system deemed relevant by

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-19 Thread Gerard Freriks
Diagnosis is a fuzzy term. It is used and mis-used and creates a lot of confusions. A 'diagnosis' many time does not describe a disease process inside the patient system, but is a way to collect or spend money or to explain a next round of diagnostics or treatments. All terms like these need

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-19 Thread Thomas Beale
In a way, having a 'diagnosis' archetype (whatever it is today, and whatever it evolves into) does do away with trying to define diagnosis - by providing its own extensional definition of data points that some clinical modellers have agreed are useful to collect. The 'meaning' of the word

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-18 Thread Gerard Freriks
On 17 Aug 2012, at 19:38, Thomas Beale wrote: Decisions of medical users do not depend on the fact that an item is classified as observation or evaluation. maybe not so much on how it is classified, but on whether it can be trusted or not. Erroneous conclusions can be drawn from

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-18 Thread Sam Heard
Hi Stefan The scope of openEHR is the health record. With that in mind things are a little simpler On 17/08/2012 11:35 PM, Stefan Sauermann wrote: This is deeply philosophic, but if you want it you get it: ;) The fact that a smoker within a given population develops cancer is an

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-18 Thread Karsten Hilbert
20 something years of medical practice learned me to be humble and do not use the word Diagnosis too lightly: ... Example: I know that within one day I suspected the patient to have shortness of breath because of: asthma, pulmonary infection, cardiac failure and panic attacks/hyper

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-18 Thread Gerard Freriks
Good. lets ditch the term 'Diagnosis' completely. Or use it only when we are -as you write- scientifically certain. And use other terms. We (EN13606 Association) prefer the 'Reasons for ...' type of terms, because that is what they do in real life. They are the excuses to do something (or

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-18 Thread Karsten Hilbert
lets ditch the term 'Diagnosis' completely. Or use it only when we are -as you write- scientifically certain. And use other terms. We (EN13606 Association) prefer the 'Reasons for ...' type of terms, because that is what they do in real life. They are the excuses to do something (or nothing);

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-18 Thread Jussara
Yet we use this term a lot, as a hypothese or as a differential diagnosis, or even as a past diagnose, not forget to billing purposes and DRG calculus. Don't know how you could avoid it here in Brazil, where ICD 10 is used to code everything, actually it is the only classification used in

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Hi Stefan, On 17/08/2012 15:05, Stefan Sauermann wrote: This is deeply philosophic, but if you want it you get it: ;) The fact that a smoker within a given population develops cancer is an observation. The fact that n smokers within a given population develop cancer is an observation.

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-16 Thread Gerard Freriks
Shinji, In the EN13606 Association in our SIAMS document we developed a generic semantic patterns that drives all artefacts, One of the sub-patterns is to document a semi-quantitative result. This semi-quantitative result is to document all 'severity' type of things. Always these

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Heather Leslie
-clinical-bounces at lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Koray Atalag Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 2:28 PM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue Hi, There's a CVD risk assessment tool I'm working on which prepopulates clinical info from GP

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Gerard Freriks
RISK is a complex thing. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk#ISO31000:2009_Risk_Management_Standard Only looking at temporal aspects: The risk to die within 10 years when you are 100 years old is HIGH The risk to die within 10 years when you are 30 years old is LOW The risk to die within

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Shinji KOBAYASHI
Hi Gerald, Completely agree with controversy in RISK evaluation. I have similar experience on SEVERITY evaluation. openEHR-EHR-problem-diagnosis archetype has severity metrics, but it does not fit for various evaluation criteria. I specialized to have a 'severity detail' slot to apply various

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Koray Atalag
: openehr-clinical-bounces at lists.openehr.org [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Heather Leslie Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 2:50 p.m. To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: RE: Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue Hi Koray, Some of the latest

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Gerard Freriks
Dear Koray, In EN13606 Association we think that all artefacts must be derived from (specialised) from one generic pattern. The draft document SIAMS defines this, plus more. All artefacts inherit this generic pattern. It is just one change of one attribute in the pattern that changes it from

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:10:47AM +0200, Stef Verlinden wrote: Personallly i still think that any RISK or SEVERITY evaluation is completely worthless You may want to define worth to put this into context. unless that evaluation AT contains a detailed protocol describing the criteria

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-15 Thread Heather Leslie
One comment. From: openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Koray Atalag Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 6:43 PM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: RE: Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue Hi Heather

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread Koray Atalag
Hi, There's a CVD risk assessment tool I'm working on which prepopulates clinical info from GP software. This includes diagnoses, smoking status and checklist for certain medications. Note that some of the underlying info might be coming from previous visits (e.g. problem list type) but also

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread PPOUDEL
Good afternoon, I use MedTech32 almost everyday. The recent CVD risk assessment is incorporated with diabetes risk assessment but not 3 month diabetic check-up one. CVD risk assessment actually adjust risk and recall patient for 3 monthly, 6 monthly, annual or every 5 yrs, best on the data

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas Beale
On 14/08/2012 05:28, Koray Atalag wrote: Hi, There's a CVD risk assessment tool I'm working on which prepopulates clinical info from GP software. This includes diagnoses, smoking status and checklist for certain medications. Note that some of the underlying info might be coming from

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread Gerard Freriks
The risk itself is an Evaluation and can be used to store data about the risk. The procedure/method to do the calculation is not an artefact that will be stored, but referred to in the Evaluation. Using a RM and an AOM it must be possible to specify in a Composition type of artefact the

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread Stefan Sauermann
Just out of the Risk analysis box see eg. ISO 14971: Took me some time to figure it out, so I share it just in case: Risk consists of: - A hazard - a probability that this hazard will typically occur - the severity of the harm that this hazard will cause on humans or non-human subjects -

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread Gerard Freriks
Risk consists of: - A hazard - a probability that this hazard will typically occur - the severity of the harm that this hazard will cause on humans or non-human subjects - probability together with severity will describe the risk Should we add the temporal factor? E.g. the chances in a

Yet another OBSERVATION vs. EVALUATION issue

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas Beale
On 14/08/2012 15:43, Stefan Sauermann wrote: Just out of the Risk analysis box see eg. ISO 14971: Took me some time to figure it out, so I share it just in case: Risk consists of: - A hazard - a probability that this hazard will typically occur - the severity of the harm that this hazard