Archetypes and Terminology (was Re: Antw: Re: Open Source EHR at the Americal Academy of Family Physicians ...)

2003-10-02 Thread Thomas Beale
Philippe AMELINE wrote: > Hi to all, > > We are currently experiencing such things ; it is not easy to have > people understand the difference between description (As accurate as > possible), local study (question 5 can be answered 5.1, 5.2...) and > studies using classifications such as ICD or

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2003-10-02 Thread Philippe AMELINE
Hi to all, At 04:43 02/10/2003 -0400, Williamtfgoossen at cs.com wrote: >b >>) these archetypes will have local vocabulary which defines meanings >>for exactly what terms need to mean in the exact context of the archetypes. > > >Yes, but, if this is going to be constructed, it is wise to already l

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2003-10-02 Thread williamtfgoos...@cs.com
Dear all, Thomas in particular to remind me to send the message to all, instead only to him :-) Some possible additions to Thomas procedure: > a) some people develop some archetypes , e.g. American College of > Opthalmologists (not sure what the proper title is) > Yes, any professional organ

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2003-09-27 Thread Tim Churches
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 23:01, Thomas Beale wrote: > Right now I really think people need to understand that there is still a > lot of intellectual work ot go in this area, and that finalising > licencing situations will not particularly change things. And theoretical health informaticists need t

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2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Beale
William E Hammond wrote: >William, > >I do not think you are over reacting. I agree with you. My only point is >that we should be driven by what is best and what is a true solution, and >not by the wrong reasons. I would be most interested in seeing us compile >a list of candidates for terminol

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2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Beale
Williamtfgoossen at cs.com wrote: > In een bericht met de datum 25-9-2003 15:10:09 West-Europa > (zomertijd), schrijft hammo001 at mc.duke.edu: > > I agree with Ed in that if we can make this resource available, we > need to work on that. > I think it is OK that HL7 uses SNOMED as preferred term

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2003-09-26 Thread Tim Churches
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2003-09-26 Thread Tim Churches
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 04:04, lakewood at copper.net wrote: > 3)Rigorous testing, including scalability, of SNOMED seems to be sparse: > > PERFORMANCE; Google search: "SNOMED performance |" > http://etbsun2.nlm.nih.gov:8000/publis-ob-offi/pdf/2000-tal-ob-Ft.pdf > (1 hit) > > SCALABILITY: Google se

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2003-09-25 Thread lakew...@copper.net
Hi Tim, Pieces of the 33 hits are included below: -Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the cervix -An evaluation of the usefulness of two terminology models for integrating nursing diagnosis concepts into SNOMED Clinical Terms -Improved coding of the primary reason for visit to the emergency department us

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2003-09-25 Thread lakew...@copper.net
Hi William, A small addition: 1)It seems unlikely that Practitioners, Patients and associated parties would be UNABLE to effectively communicate without speaking SNOMED. 2)It seems likely that a single, dominating system for handling day-to-day Healthcare-related activities it become efficient

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2003-09-25 Thread William E Hammond
William, I do not think you are over reacting. I agree with you. My only point is that we should be driven by what is best and what is a true solution, and not by the wrong reasons. I would be most interested in seeing us compile a list of candidates for terminologies that should be conside

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2003-09-25 Thread Tom Culpepper
Hi all, Just wanted to let folks know that at the "Computational Level" the work of the OMG Healthcare Domain Task Force's Lexicon Query Service (LQS) address the issue of multiple terminologies and their use in IT setting

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2003-09-25 Thread williamtfgoos...@cs.com
In een bericht met de datum 25-9-2003 15:10:09 West-Europa (zomertijd), schrijft hammo001 at mc.duke.edu: > > I agree with Gerard that we need to be careful. However, that does not > mean that we go to the lowest denominator. IF we think SNOMED is the best > solution, then we need to spend ou