Pathology requirements CONTRIBUTION - 2 versions at once

2003-10-26 Thread Christopher Feahr
Hi Thomas, I'm not sure I like the notion of superceded. Is the first test an error? If so, the first result should simply be marked wrong and voided or removed. If the first result just looked a little goofy to the clinician, but there was nothing to indicate with certainty that it was

Pathology requirements TIMED MEASUREMENTS

2003-10-26 Thread Christopher Feahr
One should take care never to obscure the reality of the fact that you have two separate test results. That reality needs to be captured somewhere, at some level of the EHR. The algorithm that the clinician or researcher applies to these two results would be another matter. -C At 06:20 AM

What HIPAA means to you - a brief description

2003-09-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
wrote: Christopher Feahr wrote: Tom, Are your remarks here concerned only about *privacy* laws with respect to EHR... i.e., patient and provider rights with respect to access and disclosure? I can't think of any other general aspect of law that would apply to EHR... at least not one that would

What HIPAA means to you - a brief description

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher Feahr
Tom, Are your remarks here concerned only about *privacy* laws with respect to EHR... i.e., patient and provider rights with respect to access and disclosure? I can't think of any other general aspect of law that would apply to EHR... at least not one that would benefit from the uniform model

testing listserve (please ignore)

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Feahr
test - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

Proposal to strealime voting for providers

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Feahr
To: Christopher Feahr ; ehrmodelwg at lists.hl7.org ; ehr at lists.hl7.org ; openehr-technical at openehr.org Cc: HL7_Abdul-Malik Shakir ; HL7-Gartner_Wes Rishel ; Victor Connors ; AAO_Steve Kamenetzki ; viceprez at massmed.org ; HZMD at aol.com ; karenvan Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:37 AM

Open Source EHR at the Americal Academy of Family Physicians ...

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher Feahr
:37PM -0700, Christopher Feahr wrote: Personally, I would like to see all EHR-related standards work... at least in the US... coordinated under the umbrella of HL7. At the moment, the CCR project does not appear to be headed toward HL7. I really don't know if HL7 would be the way things

IS Models (was HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR)

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Feahr
, Philippe Christopher Feahr wrote: . but my understanding was the the SNOMED people had already modeled complaints, signs/symproms, diagnosis, treatment plans, prognosis, outcomes... the whole 9 yards. If that is true (seems too good to be true!) then it may only require a (simple

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Feahr
this, of course, raises the issue of the certification of the certifiers... i.e., where does the meta-certification-buck stop? In my opinion, certification (that an application, record structure, message, data elements, archetypes, etc. conform to a particular version of registered standard)

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-12 Thread Christopher Feahr
Again... please do not misunderstand my recommendation to give payers direct access to EHR information to be a recommendation of *unrestricted* access. I'm not sure exactly how we will control it, but I would argue for payers having access to no more information than they have access to today.

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-12 Thread Christopher Feahr
) Office: (707) 579-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message - From: Thomas Beale tho...@deepthought.com.au To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:20 PM Subject: Re: HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR Christopher

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-11 Thread Christopher Feahr
://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message - From: Thomas Clark lakew...@copper.net To: Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com Cc: Karsten Hilbert Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:25 AM Subject: Re: HISTORY DATA SET

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-11 Thread Christopher Feahr
Hi Christopher, Christopher Feahr wrote: For this reason, the Institute of Medicine content recommendations (reflected in the present version 1.0 of the HL7 EHR ballot) includes 4 main care settings: in-patient, out-patient, nursing home, and personal health record. The last

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-11 Thread Christopher Feahr
Hi Karsten, please see comments in-line. thanks. Christopher J. Feahr, O.D. Optiserv Consulting (Vision Industry) Office: (707) 579-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message - From: Karsten Hilbert karsten.hilb...@gmx.net To:

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-10 Thread Christopher Feahr
Karsten, I agree that the medical concepts shhould be carefully modeled first... then extract the necessary terminologies... then build the necessary code lists. I have not wanted to pay the $500 licence fee to look at SNOMED CT, as it will be free for all in 3 months... so I apologize for my

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-07 Thread Christopher Feahr
; Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com Cc: Thomas Clark lakewood at copper.net Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach Hi Chris, Unfortunately the uncertainty in the HIPAA environment at this time is sufficient to cause large Providers, e.g., Kaiser

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-05 Thread Christopher Feahr
Thomas, This sounds workable to me. If I am understanding you correctly, we need one (and only one??) registry in which anyone, anywhere (who is authorized, of course) could look up a patient and determine which region had master control at the moment over his record. If I'm a provider living in

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-05 Thread Christopher Feahr
) Office: (707) 579-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message - From: Thomas Clark tcl...@hcsystems.com To: Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com; Thomas Beale thomas at deepthought.com.au; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Tuesday

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message - From: Thomas Beale tho...@deepthought.com.au To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 5:01 PM Subject: Re: certification and verification of OpenEHR Christopher

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Philippe, Thank you for the comments. I believe that we will have islands of health information for a very long time... for many reasons, some of which are not technically sound, but more the result of convention. On the other hand, the islands do facilitate an inherent security and

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Consulting (Vision Industry) Office: (707) 579-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message - From: Thomas Clark tcl...@hcsystems.com To: Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com; Thomas Beale thomas at deepthought.com.au; openehr-technical

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
at hcsystems.com Cc: Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com; Thomas Beale thomas at deepthought.com.au; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: Re: certification and verification of OpenEHR - If you have any questions about using this list, please send

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
- From: Tim Churches tc...@optushome.com.au To: Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com Cc: Thomas Clark tclark at hcsystems.com; Thomas Beale thomas at deepthought.com.au; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: Re: certification and verification of OpenEHR

versioned parties (was Re: certification and verification ofOpenEHR)

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Tim, Data mining and ad hoc queries does not sound out of scope to me. Sounds like a primary use for the EHR-data. Christopher J. Feahr, O.D. Optiserv Consulting (Vision Industry) Office: (707) 579-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-03 Thread Christopher Feahr
Dear Group, I have just recently joined your listserve, and have been actively participating in the HL7 EHR ballot discussion for only a few weeks. During the four years prior to that, I had been swimming in the HIPAA-EDI ocean, trying to figure out how the operational costs for 450,000 smaller