Hi Pablo The resulting state of the activity (even if there is no instruction) needs to be recorded for information to work in a distributed environment. When you record an action the computer needs to know whether it is complete or not in relation to any instruction (recorded or not). If you are simply recording information you can put the state (which is the only mandatory feature of the IM_TRANSITION) to Completed (openEHR code). As you move into an EHR that is supporting workflow or is distributed you will see that a medication administration will usually leave the instruction in an active state (unless it is a single administration or the last dose).
It enables recording of things like "Medications ceased in hospital" and the state of these medication actions will be 'aborted' or 'completed'. You can also suspend something etc. Hope this helps. Cheers, Sam From: openehr-technical-boun...@openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of pablo pazos Sent: 19 November 2009 02:17 To: openehr technical Subject: Why ISM_TRANSITION of an ACTION is mandatory? Hi, In the specs I see that ACTION has a mandatory relationship to ISM_TRANSITION. In my project I only use the "description" field of ACTION to record information about the ACTION and I don't have information to fill the ISM_TRANSITION. My question is: why the ISM_TRANSITION of the ACTION is mandatory instead of optional? Thank you, Pablo. _____ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail <http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/so cial-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010 > you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20091119/b8685689/attachment.html>
