Data Types

2002-06-12 Thread Sam Heard
Tim This is definately a mistake - amny disorders have a date of onset that is fuzzy from a month point of view but is worthwhile - last Pap smear, last attendance at Ophthalmologist etc. The point about a fuzzy date is that it is helpful for human interpretation - a month that a spouse died will

The concept of contribution

2002-06-12 Thread Sam Heard
Henry Thanks for the 'dumb' contribution. I hope that you can see that openEHR has approached the problem in a way that will allow the sort of scenarion that you have painted as well as a more complex scenario with a distributed record - or even the big brother one record for each patient held

The concept of contribution

2002-06-12 Thread Gerard Freriks
Hi, After analysis done by the Smartcard people in the Netherlands they came to the conclusion that Smartcards with significant medical information on it need special safety procedures and back-up facilities. These extra's necessitate a full back-up centrally and create synchronisation

The concept of contribution

2002-06-12 Thread Gerard Freriks
On 2002-06-12 03:34, Thomas Beale thomas at deepthought.com.au wrote: Li, Henry wrote: This is the process A patient visits a care provider and presents his e-card as a proof of consent to treatment The health care provider loads up the health record into the browser and download

FW: The concept of contribution

2002-06-12 Thread Thomas Beale
Tony Grivell wrote: One attractive option that goes some way to satisfy the above ideals is to have any particular data exist in only one primary location (backed up, of course), and therefore the total record scattered potentially around the world. The patient-held e-card (also backed