Sam,
Are we talking mainly laboratory devices or all types of diagnostic and
monitoring including imaging and home-based devices? --a tall order if the
latter.
Various HL7 TCs and SIGs including LAPOCT would be a starting point for the
content and some of the use cases. Archetypes authored by the people with the
need should protect the mainstream from this quagmire.
David.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Heard
To: openEHR-Clinical ; MelvinR at AMS-Consulting.co.uk
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Device information in the EHR
Hi Everyone
I have just returned home after many weeks of meetings which have been an
extraordinary experience - but one involved a session at the ISO meeting in
Brisbane with the devices group and Melvin Reynolds. He is interested in
standardising the information we keep about the device as part of the
observation protocol.
We have agreed to try and get a standard model (a cluster in openEHR) that we
use to record information about the device used to make the observation. It was
raised at the meeting that the laboratory will retain a great deal of
information - the point is that some of this might be critical in the future
(such as the identification of the device if systematic errors are later
reported which might mean we should not accept the findings from this device as
sufficiently accurate).
I would like to start a thread where we agree on the information about the
DEVICE - this is not about the value (ie the accuracy of the measurement can be
added to the reading and should be there we believe) - so it is about the
device itself.
What do people suggest?
Cheers, Sam Heard
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