Hi Evelyn, what a fantastic initiative...I am really quite disturbed how these fundamental terms are being used inconsistently. Here are the most difficult ones for me:
- Clinical model (can be a model patient for med students! If context is not given) - Clinical information model (originally this refers to knowledge artifacts as you say but that is difficult to comprehend by non-openEHR/13606/HL7 aware people. This is commonly mistaken for RIM) - Concept model (too generic) - Clinical concept model (not too bad - but doesn't say much about the nature of modelling) - Also please add these to you list: - Clinical data set - Clinical data repository - Meta-data repository - Clinical concept repository - Minimum data sets - Core data sets - Clinical core data sets - National collections - Registries (clinical/disease etc.) - Research databases Will continue... Cheers, -koray From: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hugh Leslie Sent: Sunday, 27 June 2010 2:35 a.m. To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org Subject: Re: Health Information and Integration Platform ontology Good idea Evelyn - I am happy to help. On 26/06/2010 11:54 PM, Evelyn Hovenga wrote: Colleagues, I would like to develop a high level ontology model of the health information and integration platform showing the entities, concepts and their various relationships as a means of enabling us to clearly show what this is all about and to enable us to communicate to non technical people the implications (and limitations imposed) of decisions made regarding the adoption of such a national infrastructure platform. It's about all the stuff that sits between the hardware and software applications. This area is not well understood by non technical people (including me) yet the term ' platform' is used heavily for marketing purposes by big software suppliers. An ontological model of this domain should serve us well for educational purposes. I'd like to adopt the clinical knowledge artifacts (my generic term for archetypes or detailed clinical models) as central to such a platform as these provide the foundation for all health information and processing needs at the individual, local, organisational, national and international levels. I would welcome your views on which entities and concepts (and their associated generic names) to include in such an ontological model. At this stage my review of the literature etc has resulted in the following list but I need help in defining these and their relationships in a generic mutual exclusive sense as clearly the adoption of one or more specific entities/concepts influences others either positively or negatively. Many different platforms are in existence but how does one evaluate their completeness, functionality, efficiency, effectiveness, impact on patient safety or outcomes? The terms below are used in non standard ways making it difficult to gain a clear understanding about these from the literature. Reference information model Data types Service Oriented Architectures Web services Clinical Knowledge Repository Terminology server Clinical modelling tools Tooling to convert clinical knowledge to machine processable schema or templates EHR services Longitudinal EHR services Technology platform eg .net, java, mobile versions Middleware products GUI Standards & frameworks Identifiers standard Demographic service Application development platform Knowledge management platform Semantic interoperability Functions such as authentication of users and applications, guaranteed delivery of messages between components and users, logical connections Consent management services I look forward to your comments. Evelyn Evelyn J.S Hovenga RN PhD FACS FACHI Professor & Director eHealth Education Pty Ltd Director of EJSH Consulting, PO Box 9783 Frenchville, Rockhampton Qld 4701 Editor in Chief, eJHI http://www.ejhi.net<http://www.ejhi.net/> Adjunct Professor, Victoria University, Melbourne ACHI Council member Standards Australia member ehovenga at gmail.com<mailto:ehovenga at gmail.com> evelyn at evelynhovenga.com<mailto:evelyn at evelynhovenga.com> e.hovenga at ehealtheducation.net<mailto:e.hovenga at ehealtheducation.net> Mob +61 (0)408 309839 Qld Office Ph. +61 (0)7 4921 3029 _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org<mailto:openEHR-clinical at openehr.org> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical -- ________________________________________________ Dr Hugh Leslie MBBS, Dip. Obs. RACOG, FRACGP, FACHI Clinical Director Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd M: +61 404 033 767 E: hugh.leslie at oceaninformatics.com<mailto:hugh.leslie at oceaninformatics.com> W: www.oceaninformatics.com<http://www.oceaninformatics.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20100627/d50eb46b/attachment.html>
