One option might be simply to do a per FHIR and 'hardwire' code + code system, alongside units. This would retain backward compatibility. It would prevent us using DV_TEXT features like mapping but in many respects that might not be a bad thing.
Ian Dr Ian McNicoll mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 office +44 (0)1536 414994 skype: ianmcnicoll email: i...@freshehr.com twitter: @ianmcnicoll Co-Chair, openEHR Foundation ian.mcnic...@openehr.org Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics Ltd. Director, HANDIHealth CIC Hon. Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL On 18 May 2016 at 10:22, Ian McNicoll <i...@freshehr.com> wrote: > Hi Grahame, > > For the use case raised, I agree, but there other considerations e.g. Dose > units and other non-UCUM code use - in the UK there is a desire to use > SNOMED terms for dose units. > > FHIR has human + code + system for quantity units, I think? > > Ian > > > Dr Ian McNicoll > mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 > office +44 (0)1536 414994 > skype: ianmcnicoll > email: i...@freshehr.com > twitter: @ianmcnicoll > > Co-Chair, openEHR Foundation ian.mcnic...@openehr.org > Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics Ltd. > Director, HANDIHealth CIC > Hon. Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL > > On 18 May 2016 at 10:11, Grahame Grieve <graha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That's overkill - just have two fields, human and computable units. >> >> Grahame >> >> On 18 May 2016, at 7:05 PM, Daniel Karlsson <daniel.karls...@liu.se> >> wrote: >> >> So, right now the DV_QUANTITY.units is a String, perhaps it should be >> DV_CODED_TEXT? >> >> /Daniel >> >> On 2016-05-18 10:25, Bakke, Silje Ljosland wrote: >> >> This imposes a larger implementation burden on the systems who will have >> to be able to read UCUM codes and show the corresponding symbol instead of >> the code, which in many cases is not readable to clinicians. >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Karlsson, PhD, sr lecturer >> Department of Biomedical Engineering/Health informatics >> Linköping university >> SE-58185 Linköping >> Sweden >> Ph. +46 708350109, Skype: imt_danka, Hangout: daniel.e.karls...@gmail.com >> >> <daniel_karlsson.vcf> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openEHR-technical mailing list >> openEHR-technical@lists.openehr.org >> >> http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openEHR-technical mailing list >> openEHR-technical@lists.openehr.org >> >> http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >> > >
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