EN/ISO 13606 & openEHR - harmonisation possibilities

2011-09-09 Thread Ian McNicoll
t there is different design paradigm. Three-level modelling, rather than two-level modelling? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics,

openEHR Transition Announcement (about regional/national openehr organizations)

2011-09-07 Thread Ian McNicoll
Thanks Erik, These feel like very sound proposals, in particular the focus on bottom-up local development. Pablo, Shinji - would Erik's suggestions be the kind of support that you would hope to have? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)77

openEHR Transition: two procedural and one licensing question

2011-09-07 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Diego, I have responded to your comments on the Clinical list under openEHR Transition: Community Knowledge repository as I think this a topic which properly belongs there and absolutely merits further discussion. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536

openEHR Transition Announcement (about regional/national openehr organizations)

2011-09-07 Thread Ian McNicoll
one or both might be useful at regional level. Would it be sufficient for the Foundation to give 'official status' to regional affiliates e.g. openEHR Japan, or are there other practical suggestions as to how best to support regional affiliates? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536

openEHR Transition: two procedural and one licensing question

2011-09-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
ion to development and now into real implementation, I am increasingly confident that openEHR has a solid and exciting future. I am looking forward to the challenge of helping get us into the right shape to support this future. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)15

openEHR Transition: two procedural and one licensing question

2011-09-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Pablo, I agree with your and Diego's suggested change. That was the intended meaning of the original statement but yours expresses this more clearly. I was just interested in Diego's actual experience with the CKM web-services as the basis for a generic API. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll

openEHR Transition: two procedural and one licensing question

2011-09-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
uld be clarified. We should define a >> basic API to access repositories, to avoid doing ad-hoc >> implementations for each one of the possible repositories > > > > ___ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at o

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
. Heather took an descision on which were 'good enough' to go into CKM without too much extra work but there are others which can certainly be used. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninfor

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
s time. We do not want to put these archetypes , developed for a particular project, up on to CKM until we have at least established that they are appropriate for sharing to a wider audience. We will get there honest. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
creating interoperable archetypes which make use of clinical data collected as part of front-line activity and requirements. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
Haha Hugh - love it. The new generation of smart phones seem to have mind-reading capacity. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
out how we might approach this with openEHR. The main thing to note with this approach is that it takes longer to do the 'first module' but each subsequent module is easier, and faster to model. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
ple in the past, and I am sure there is real value in collaboration. I think the archetype methodology and review process would be of great value, even if openEHR was not used formally at the back-end of openMRS systems. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile

Multiple values in C_DV_ORDINAL constraints

2011-08-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
are not and can have duplicates. So is this a valid ordinal ? ordinal constraint? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant, Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR

Multiple values in C_DV_ORDINAL constraints

2011-08-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
CR for the Archetype Editor, a CR to the Ref Model, or a clever alternative modelling suggestion to me? Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean I

AQL VersionedObject Grammar

2011-07-19 Thread Ian McNicoll
mit _audit and versioned_object attributes for all Encounter compositions. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical

CCR model

2011-07-11 Thread Ian McNicoll
/infocenter/index.jsp?topic=/org.openhealthtools.mdht.cda.doc.user/c_Introduction.html Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR

Dual Model EHR implementation

2011-06-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
I will get killed by both communities for that statement!!). I am interested in your question re granularity - can you explain further what you were concerned about? Cheers, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 ?? ? ? ? +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209

openEHR Archetypes Development

2011-06-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
to address these issues but it does present a significant barrier for those outside the NHS. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 ?? ? ? ? +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical

openEHR Archetypes Development

2011-05-19 Thread Ian McNicoll
developed locally and submitted for inclusion to a shared repository as expertise develops. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling

openEHR Archetypes Development

2011-05-19 Thread Ian McNicoll
me directly if you want to discuss privately. I am based in the UK and reasonably familiar with the various UK standards development efforts (for better or worse!!). Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype

One model vs One framework in e-health .....

2011-05-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
ay to go, particularly in getting to grips with the post-coordinated terminologies but I think both our communities are broadly on the right track and it is great to know that there is a useful exchange of ideas. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392

One model vs One framework in e-health .....

2011-05-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
the needs of varying specialities and domains. Interesting discussion, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant, Ocean Informat

Unable to express an unit of measurements in UCUM syntax

2011-04-29 Thread Ian McNicoll
ge request mechanism. e.g. As alternatives 1. Use the pseudo-unit in the unit attribute, as a qualified real 2. Use a qualified real and keep the name of the unit in the element name 'LV function factor (m2/kg3/m)' or whatever. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994

Archetype versioning on CKM

2011-04-27 Thread Ian McNicoll
force us to move from v0->v1, which is what I think we need to avoid for these first draft archetypes. Once an archetype is published, the rules suggested (mostly) work just fine Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775

Archetype versioning on CKM

2011-04-27 Thread Ian McNicoll
envisage a better solution. Would calling first draft archetypes .v0 help to highlight their fragility? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com C

Archetype versioning on CKM

2011-04-27 Thread Ian McNicoll
hics archetypes and these are comparatively simple). Any projects, including our own, that are using 'draft' archetypes must accept that these are subject to change and have to be regarded as local copies. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0)2032 392 970 fax

Archetype versioning on CKM

2011-04-27 Thread Ian McNicoll
archetypes to distinguish between archetypes that are in early draft (like alpha code and therefore volatiile) and those that are effectively Release candidates - would this be helpful. Regards, Ian PS Enjoyed your Japanese presentation. Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 +44 (0

openEHR artifact namespace identifiers

2011-04-08 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Diego, Very interesting. Is any of the documentation available without paying a small fortune? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst, Ocean Informatics, UK

openEHR artefact namespace identifiers

2011-04-05 Thread Ian McNicoll
ype in the description section of an archetype as follows:" id_history = Thoughts would be welcome as I think we need to start making these (or alternative) specifications formal to enable tooling and application support to go ahead. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44

new openEHR-based framework

2011-04-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
Congratulations Pablo, Would it be possible to get some headline points for this release? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst, Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR

Overview

2011-04-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst, Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL

SNOMED-CT approach to term rubrics for openEHR nodes?

2011-03-28 Thread Ian McNicoll
. openEHR-EHR-ACTION.procedure-unassisted_oxygen_delivery.v1|Unassisted oxygen delivery| and name/value = 'Current oxygen']/description[at0001]|Tree|/items[at0002.1|Intervention|] Would it even be useful as a documentation convention even if not supported in current systems? Ian Dr Ia

C_DATE_TIME and RM instances

2011-03-18 Thread Ian McNicoll
except in exceedingly rare circumstances. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst, Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senio

Which code in code_string symbol for DV_ORDINAL?

2011-03-18 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Leonardo, You can use a local terminology-id but do not use 'local' for the terminology name, which is reserved name meaning that internal atcodes are being used. So this would be valid, I think ... > >leonardoCT > > 5 Ian Dr Ian McNicoll off

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-10 Thread Ian McNicoll
fundamentally a DV_CODED_TEXT list, but which in some circumstances (where the number of states is 2 or less, after template level constraint), that can be expressed as a boolean for GUI purposes. I am re-reading Erik's comments to see where that takes us!! Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-09 Thread Ian McNicoll
most of SNOMED, openEHR, 13606 and HL7 semantics. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/kno

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-09 Thread Ian McNicoll
nt with clinical statements but make it easier for GUI designers to understand how to represent the questionairre. I very rarely now use DV_BOOLEAN when modelling but agree that using DV_TEXT/CODE_TEXT is a pain to map to a checkbox/radiobutton GUI. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 41499

Use of Identifiers in archetypes

2011-01-18 Thread Ian McNicoll
specifications change to allow FEEDER_AUDIT used in this way. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor

Use of Identifiers in archetypes

2011-01-18 Thread Ian McNicoll
was deemed unsuitable for this purpose. Personally I like the idea of using FEEDER_AUDIT and there is growing recognition that we need to expose more of the RM in the models for specific archetypes but the current specs seemed to debar the use of FEEDER_AUDIT for outgoing identifiers. Ian Dr Ian

Should this list receive notifications for changes to ADL reference archetypes & schemas?

2011-01-14 Thread Ian McNicoll
I would vote for RSS Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research

Archetype class

2011-01-11 Thread Ian McNicoll
some of the code sensibly. Oxygen may be just as good. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary

DV_QUANTITY or DV_DURATION?

2010-12-17 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Thomas, I think I have used DV+DURATION in all of these circumstances.. My impression has been that DV_QUANTITY with time property was deprecated. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-15 Thread Ian McNicoll
ed post-coordination work and addressing the Questionnaire conundrum. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowle

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread Ian McNicoll
cannot be added to a template. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Associate

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread Ian McNicoll
just an issue of GUI. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UC

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
of association between a parent concept and potential children which is independent of any GUI representation. These, I believe, should be considered for inclusion within archetypes/templates. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
-defined forms, a common feature in many applications. The other is in the area of requirements gathering and prototyping, either for EHR aplication development or wider standards development work. Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
the enclosed scope of a single archetype. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
definition is pretty stable. The issues of extra directives and extensions are important at this stage as arguably some should be supported in the operational template, as I discussed above. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.m

new openEHR-based framework

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
Thanks Pablo, I was dealing with some monster requirements documents which were perhaps atypical. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical

new openEHR-based framework

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
although fairly amusing on occasion!! Most of the formatting is retained although Word numberings tend to get lost. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Cl

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
ow readily other local template-based openEHR projects can generate an operational template, since this not only gives a pivot oint for GUI directives etc but makes it possible to switch back-end persistence very easily. Ian Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209

Developing usable GUIs

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
ecords this (i.e. in MST Findings archetypes [Present?] node). =/ So, in principle, should we keep the operational template 'pure', and if so, where is the cut-off and how do we integrate that pure template layer with a GUI/messaging directive layer(s). Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread Ian McNicoll
ed or effectively married or religiously married? By whose rules? I think this is taking ontological purity into an unsustainable and fruitless level of detail. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com

More on ISO 21090 complexity

2010-11-24 Thread Ian McNicoll
e from and support open source projects like yours and Koray's. There are also some interesting discussion to be had about how to share the archetype you have developed, or at least feed your ideas into broader developments. Would you mind re-posting in a different/new thread? Ian Dr Ian McNico

openEHR-13606 harmonization CR regarding CLUSTER/TABLE etc and ENTRY/OBSERVATION (Was: ISO 21090 data types too complex?)

2010-11-10 Thread Ian McNicoll
bular representation difficult in all cases. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical analyst,?Ocean Informatics openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Asso

openEHR-13606 harmonization CR regarding CLUSTER/TABLE etc and ENTRY/OBSERVATION (Was: ISO 21090 data types too complex?)

2010-11-10 Thread Ian McNicoll
kind of simplification around the use of CLUSTER, with the ability to define TABLES within a CLUSTER or ITEM_TREE would give us some simpler modelling constructs and, as you suggest, flatten the data path. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype

openEHR-RM-LINK discussion - now also on mailing list :-)

2010-10-28 Thread Ian McNicoll
epj::openEHR-EHR-EVALUATION.genetic_diagnosis.v1.12, org.openehr.ehr::openEHR-EHR-EVALUATION.diagnosis.v1.29, org.openehr.ehr::openEHR-EHR-EVALUATION.problem.v2.4 Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com

Mindmap software

2010-10-15 Thread Ian McNicoll
commercial offerings such as Mindmanager but would need some work to 'componentise' as I understand things. Heather Leslie and I make extensive use of Xmind in designing archetypes and templates. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)1536 414994 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype i

DV_QUANTITY or DV_PROPORTION

2010-10-14 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Leo, The standard advice is always to use DV_PROPORTION. I am not sure of the background to why proportion i also available as a DV_QUANTITY. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax? +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at

existence and assumed value

2010-09-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
sitting, or if the oxygen level was not recorded in the ambient oxygen archetype, it would be safe to assume that the patient was breathing air. In practice, we have very few examples in the CKM archetypes to date, where it is safe to make such clinical assumptions. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office

Run-time name constraints and appropriate use of terminologies

2010-08-23 Thread Ian McNicoll
context of a common 'base' Patient Name archetype. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics Honorary Senior Research Associate, C

ArchetypeNodeId of an archetypeslot

2010-08-23 Thread Ian McNicoll
of the slot for downstream users. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, University College London

ArchetypeNodeId of an archetypeslot

2010-08-22 Thread Ian McNicoll
ents[at0006]/data[at0003]/items[at0004]/value/value >= 140 Note too that, specialised archetypes also support the same mechanism of filled lots, which allows compound archetypes to be defined i.e with some pre-filled slots. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775

Run-time name constraints and appropriate use of terminologies

2010-08-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
at0026, at0027, at0028] } } ... Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinic

Run-time name constraints and appropriate use of terminologies

2010-08-19 Thread Ian McNicoll
o use it afterwards - i.e. is the above going to assign an expression to *as_string()* function? ========= Discuss!! Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Cl

Run-time name constraints and appropriate use of terminologies

2010-08-19 Thread Ian McNicoll
point is that for these demographic *name*-based-typing it will be even safer to use an openEHR terminology instead, as that is always available within an openEHR environment. = Part 2 to follow ... Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +

Run-time name constraints and appropriate use of terminologies

2010-08-16 Thread Ian McNicoll
o me needs to be in a separate post as the combined message is too large for the email server. I hope a lively debate will ensue :-) Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk

proposed ADL 1.5 simplification

2010-07-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi David, I agree. I think the default behaviour in AE would be switchable as per user preference. i.e. save in adl 1.4 or 1.5. The file extensions will be different in any case - .adls and .adlf. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll

Empty string for DV_TEXT

2010-06-29 Thread Ian McNicoll
it, so I hope someone else will pitch in to any further discussion. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Memb

Empty string for DV_TEXT

2010-06-29 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Leo, No it works the other way round. All of the null flavours are automatically available unless you specifically constrain them out. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk

Empty string for DV_TEXT

2010-06-29 Thread Ian McNicoll
h matches the Snomed approach. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care SG

Empty string for DV_TEXT

2010-06-29 Thread Ian McNicoll
ome sort of comment is mandatory then using the null is the means to allow an empty comment. I have copied ot the clinical list, as it would be interesting to get some other feedback. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll a

Decision Support Providers

2010-06-26 Thread Ian McNicoll
s defining the detailed clinical content in a manageable and scalable fashion. I think the openEHR approach to content definition has definite advantages. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at

Medinfo 2010 openEHR workshop

2010-06-26 Thread Ian McNicoll
Final decision has not been taken but I am expecting to be there. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group

Empty string for DV_TEXT

2010-06-26 Thread Ian McNicoll
entry field is left blank, this would simply not be recorded in openEHR data. If the field is mandatory, either the user is forced to make some sort of entry or perhaps is allowed to select one of the null values as you suggest. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile

Demographics archetypes

2010-06-08 Thread Ian McNicoll
publication. Any contributions would be very much appreciated. The links are Address : http://www.openehr.org/knowledge/OKM.html#showArchetype_1013.1.484 Person Name: http://www.openehr.org/knowledge/OKM.html#showArchetype_1013.1.477 Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560

ADL 1.5 - relaxing a conformance rule - feedback sought

2010-05-21 Thread Ian McNicoll
are likely to be the most common sort of redefinition, in Templates, constrained down to 0..0. In comparison name and datatype redefinitions will be comparatively rare. So, I would prefer to keep the original rule for name and datatype redefinitions but relax it for occurences. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll

Specialisation of archetype - Some doubts

2010-05-19 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Leo, See below for my best understandings!! Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary

Governance of terminology lists

2010-05-17 Thread Ian McNicoll
also feel this is primarily a technical activity but will probably need somre clinical input as a sanity check. We also need to think about these issues in relation to possible alignment with IHTSDO e.g should we start to think about using SNOMED-like primary technical representations. Regards, Ian

IHTSDO meeting - term binding presentation available

2010-05-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
'metadata', as far as I can tell , other than Refset name, this is almost wholly technical in nature and clinical metadata elements e.g use, misuse, purpose, authoring details are not defined - is this correct? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209

Term bindings in archetypes and templates

2010-03-11 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Sheng, A few of my comments below... Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care

Should ATTESTATION.reason datatype really be DV_TEXT or rather DV_CODED_TEXT (or perhaps CODE_PHRASE)?

2010-03-04 Thread Ian McNicoll
I would agree - this is clinically the safest and correct action. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member

Template and Schema for the ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and HL7 CCD

2010-02-24 Thread Ian McNicoll
in 'normal' CKM archetpye e.g. Heart rate-Pulse, Blood pressure and Oximetry. There is also now a CLUSTER.waveform archetype to hande this form pf device output. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceanin

Template and Schema for the ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and HL7 CCD

2010-02-23 Thread Ian McNicoll
nical list as I think there will be some interest there as well. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member B

Setting up a common publication/resource library for openEHR

2010-02-15 Thread Ian McNicoll
I would definitely recommend Zotero - this is what I use to store and format the references used in CKM. Mendeley looks very interesting, and perhaps better suited for joint reference libraries, but they do recognise that it is not as fully-featured as Zotero. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax

Comment on openEHR-EHR-CLUSTER.inspection-skin-wound.v1 archetype

2010-02-04 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Otavio, Thanks for the input. There are a few of us looking at the wound archetypes via Google Wave at https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BsliTddCQD Your contribution would be very welcome. If you need a Google Wave invitation, just let me know. Ian Dr Ian

Meaningful use criteria

2010-01-15 Thread Ian McNicoll
tructures. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care SG Group www.phcsg.org / BCS

Google Wave invites

2009-12-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
to run out. Thanks to all, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care SG Group www.phcsg

Google Wave invitations

2009-12-02 Thread Ian McNicoll
enough offers of invitations for now . If demand seems to be outstripping supply, I will ask for more offers. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics

Google Wave invitations

2009-12-02 Thread Ian McNicoll
I can hand over to you when I run out - nice sort of chain invitation process ;-) Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype

informal poll: openEHR conference

2009-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
Central Europe (and beer) sounds a good match to me :-) Certainly Amsterdam would be good from the perspective of easy transport. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical

openEHR community on Google Wave

2009-11-17 Thread Ian McNicoll
e collaboration at a very early stage so that overlapping and contradictory models/requirements can be rationalised before different groups have invested too much time and energy. Share early, share often. Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcni

CKM Demographics archetypes

2009-11-09 Thread Ian McNicoll
m potential 'consumers' of the archetypes we cannot be certain that they are 'fit to publish'. Thanks for your interest and potential input. We appreciate that everyone's time is at a premium but any feedback you can give will be most welcome. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNi

Demographics Archetypes

2009-10-27 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Graham, Thanks for the detailed reviews of both the Address and Name archetypes. I can see your reviews and review cycles listed for both archetypes if I go to the Archetype concerned and then to Reviews - are you navigating differently. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657

CKM Reviews of Demographics model archetypes imminent

2009-10-27 Thread Ian McNicoll
Cluster archetypes between the 2 models. Does that help? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group

How to contribute an archetype

2009-10-26 Thread Ian McNicoll
ersion repository. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group www.phcsg.org 2009/10/26 pablo pazos > H

Modeling reference ranges

2009-10-13 Thread Ian McNicoll
properly belongs in the guideline/pathway space, rather than as ref ranges? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com BCS Primary Health Care

Modeling reference ranges

2009-10-12 Thread Ian McNicoll
type does not represent actual patient data but an abstract of ALL patients who might fall within the guideline. See http://www.hst.aau.dk/~ska/MIE2009/papers/MIE2009p0653.pdf Hope this helps, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian

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