Dear colleague, I agree with you that the grey zone is a relic from the past we have to deal with. Never the less, I want to argue that we have to reduce this grey-zone. By means of my suggestion to do post-coordination as much as possible in the archetype.
The main reason is: - In language post coordination is done in the syntaxis and not in the dictionary. Gerard On Jun 10, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Karlsson wrote: > Realizing that the current Snomed CT Concept Model is not enough > (today, > unfortunately by far) and that the tools for supporting constrained > post-coordination mainly are lacking, at least Snomed CT provides > *some* > constraints on semantics in areas where openEHR provides none. Also, > the > suggestion by David Markwell, I believe, is to represent semantics in > Snomed space *as well as* in the archetype space. > > Also, I firmly believe that the "grey zone" will always exist as it is > the result of the concurrent use of two different models of semantics. > Thus, the boundary problem will not be "solved", rather we will have > to > develop methods that makes the "grey zone" related problems less > harmful. > > Regards, > Daniel -- <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-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080610/31d12655/attachment.html>
