I have a dilemma regarding how a sequence of medication records for a given product name are to be percieved. I'll try to keep this simple by limiting the attributes here.
A medication record may be created from either the website or by insertion into the profile feed. The only necessary attribute is a ProductName, but it may also include Directions (dose, route, frequency), (plus others). Let's suppose this is for ProductName P. If then another Medication record is created for P, the GH website seems to treat these as two different medications; for example, they may have their own separate Directions. Is there a sense that one would override the other? Based on creation time perhaps? Or if the latter does not specify Directions, can it be assumed that directions for the earlier apply? The way out of that dilemma is to expect that all relevant attributes are included each time the mediction record for P is created. This usage is not enforced, so the dilemma remains real. Consider now that a medication appears for P by virtue of a fulfillment notice being posted by new a GH-aware medication provider for this profileID/person. This situation shares the same problem unless, once again, there is some unstated rules applied, eg specify all attributes. It's like each fulfillment applies to its own medication and there is no sense of a sequence of fulfillments per medication,unless those medications have identical, not just ProductName, but also directions, strength, etc. I hope I'm not laboring this too much, but in an application that wishes to show "the latest" medication details, how do we interpret the sequence of medications/fulfillments. Seems that more than P is required to specify a medication? Or (the only way out) can we expect all fulfilment providers to specify all relevant information, and the latest one is THE one? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Health Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/googlehealthdevelopers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
