Hi Stefan The scope of openEHR is the health record. With that in mind things are a little simpler....
On 17/08/2012 11:35 PM, Stefan Sauermann wrote: > This is deeply philosophic, but if you want it you get it: > ;) > > The fact that a smoker within a given population develops cancer is an > observation. This may appear in a person's health record but not in this form - rather the smoking record and the diagnosis > The fact that n smokers within a given population develop cancer is an > observation. This will not form part of a person's health record but it is knowledge that is useful in risk assessment > So: some elements used for risk evaluation are observations. I dont think this is true within a health record - it is always a risk to start to feel that you are modelling health and healthcare. Cheers, Sam > > Hope this helps, > greetings from Vienna, > Stefan > > Stefan Sauermann > > Program Director > Biomedical Engineering Sciences (Master) > > University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien > Hoechstaedtplatz 5, 1200 Vienna, Austria > P: +43 1 333 40 77 - 988 > M: +43 664 6192555 > E: stefan.sauermann at technikum-wien.at > > I: www.technikum-wien.at/mbe > I: www.technikum-wien.at/ibmt > I: www.healthy-interoperability.at > > > Am 14.08.2012 18:41, schrieb Thomas Beale: >> whenever you assess someone as having a risk, you are doing something >> similar to diagnosing: i.e. you are comparing some input data items >> about the patient (high BPs over last 3 months, smoker, 55years old >> etc) to some knowledge base that says that these things taken >> together constitute a risk for hypertension, due to some population >> studies. Any probability etc is derived from that knowledge base. So >> these are all evaluations. > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at lists.openehr.org > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org > >
