Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > > On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Gerard Freriks wrote: > >> Dear Dana, >> >> Why would you like to do that? >> Theoretically it might be possible to map computationally constraints >> imposed on one model to others imposed on an other, where both ways >> express the same clinical model. >> But I doubt that this can be done. >> So far only humans can make the translation since only us humans have >> an "internal ontology", an internal knowledge of the clinical world, >> that makes this possible. >> As far as I can see it, the CEN/tc251 EN13606 part 1 is a model of >> any document. >> The HL7v3 RIM is a linguistic model of any possible statement of fact. >> Both are not the same. > > Doesn't CDA provide the model for a document in the context of HL7? > it does. The only problem is that where HL7v3 is being used, the relevant authority may well ordain the use of specific messages rather than templated CDA, creating a much larger mapping problem.
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