Dear all, A few thoughts I wrote down last days but now they are translated into a pictures. It helps me understand when to use what Archetype.
The ZIP-file with PDF's can be downloaded via: http://tinyurl.com/63dfg7 1- EHR's are about the Patient system and document the medical treatment process from the healthcare providers perspective. 2- The Patient System consists of: a- Inner system (chemistry, physiology, genomics, etc) b- Patient as a body c- Direct Social Patient System (family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, etc) d- Extended Social Patient System (society, etc) 3- In each layer of the Patient System there are processes 4- These processes give rise to states in the Patient System 5- Observations: Hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, touching give information about the states 6- Evaluations: Using expertise and knowledge inferences are made about the processes in the Patient System 7- Instructions: are executed (as Actions) in order to get more Observations or have the intention to influence processes in the Patient System 8- Planned Actions and unplanned Actions: influence the state and/or processes in the Patient System 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080624/7858eda0/attachment.html>
