Hi William
We are taking a service oriented approach here and it has benefits. You can store demographics in the EHR if you like and there are archetypes to allow for this. But generally this data is stored elsewhere in real systems. It is used for administration, billing and a lot of other things. Many hospital have large systems before they implement the EHR. So the EHR as a service can exist without recording the demographic information in the EHR itself. In France it is illegal to do so ? requiring separate security to get access to demographic and personal health information. In our environment, the EhrGate component manages the interface to the demographic service ? allowing demographics to be returned in queries and for accountability etc. This could be from an openEHR demographic service if that was suitable for that environment ? or any other demographic system. Finally, any information between systems is sent as an extract. This brings together the demographic and personal health information for transport, production of a CDA or whatever is required. I hope this helps. It might not seem intuitive but it is very practicle and a result of a lot of companies being involved in the architecture design (all with different demographic services and requirements). Cheers, Sam From: openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of williamtfgoos...@cs.com Sent: 17 March 2009 00:56 To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: Why is the editor not opening ADL files? Sam, this below - demographics not relevant in the EHR is like the most confusing comment ever I heard from you. About whom are we going to create a EHR then? If it is not possible to have the individuals name, id, birthdate and sex in the EHR (generally named patient demographics), it becomes useless in my vue. Or do I miss a point here? William In a message dated 16-3-2009 8:39:20 W. Europe Standard Time, sam.heard at oceaninformatics.com writes: In the meantime, I just want to be clear that the demographic model archetypes cannot be used in the EHR ? they are not relevant there. Cheers, Sam Sincerely yours, dr. William TF Goossen director Results 4 Care b.v. De Stinse 15 3823 VM Amersfoort the Netherlands emails: Results4Care at cs.com williamtfgoossen at cs.com info at results4care.nl phone + 31654614458 fax +3133 2570169 www.results4care.nl Dutch Chamber of Commerce number: 32133713 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20090320/df12cb3d/attachment.html>
