Hi Ignacio, On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:16 -0600, Ignacio Valdes wrote: > I will re-phrase. Can anyone tell me how many actual patients does > anyone have in any system that conforms to the OpenEHR specification > that is FOSS licensed? > > -- IV
Re-phasing isn't necessary. I think that everyone understood your question. The problem is that your metric is nonsensical. As a US veteran I have no choice in which EMR my records are stored. Nor does the physician have a choice in which application they use. So you can measure the number of patient records in VistA. But really is that any measure of it's validity? No it isn't. It is mandated by the organization not via some engineering principles but by simple availability. While I understand that you haven't had time to study the openEHR specs. I do believe that it is incumbent upon you as the leader of the AMIA OSWG to do so or appoint students/academics to do so. Even some FOSS application developers have called for a common data model. What they do not yet realize is that what they really want in a common information model. openEHR represents this requirement. But when they look at it they want something simpler. However, as Albert Einstein said; Keep everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. Healthcare information is complex. Therefore the (openEHR) information model is necessarily complex to some extent. You will either study and embrace it or you will be a victim of the constantly evolving "data model" of other systems that are never inter-operable. Cheers, Tim -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20081105/481ec14c/attachment.asc>
