The family of Observation, Instruction, Evaluation and Action Archetypes are containers. But they do not change the meaning if archetypes they contain. A blood pressure stays a blood pressure. In effect this specific family of archetypes constitute an extra model in the OpenEHR family of models. This model is about the patient treatment cycle in which constructs like blood pressure, prescription, etc, play a role.
Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, MD Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252544896 M: +31 620347088 E: gfrer at luna.nl Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 On 21-feb-2007, at 6:10, Brett Esler wrote: > I know what you are saying about RIM semantics but aren't the > openEHR RM > classes, OBSERVATION, INSTRUCTION, EVALUATION, etc. implying a general > weak clinical semantic as a framework for hanging stronger semantic > archetyping. I can imply certain things about a stored openEHR > OBSERVATION based on the openEHR RM definition without knowledge of > the > archetype applied to it, for a start it is considered an > observation not > an instruction for instance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20070221/5658c20c/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
