Mostly a patients history is regarded in a consultation. Mostly this is
history from after the start of the electronical era and being treated in
the Netherlands . At least it is common practice in the Netherlands for
most patients.

Op ma 2 apr. 2018 14:30 schreef Thomas Beale <thomas.be...@openehr.org>:

>
>
> On 02/04/2018 10:59, Philippe Ameline wrote:
>
> Le 01/04/2018 à 14:13, Thomas Beale a écrit :
>
>
> just by means of clarification for some readers, since I happen to know
> how both openEHR and Philippe's system works, here's the way to understand
> how openEHR would perform the same function as Ligne-de-vie (which it can):
>
>    - build a lot of CLUSTER archetypes, and probably more OBSERVATION
>    ones; each CLUSTER archetype would be one of the 'trees' Philippe talks
>    about
>    - each of those CLUSTER archetypes has slot nodes that indicate where
>    subordinate CLUSTER archetypes join, and which ones are allowed, in the
>    usual openEHR fashion;
>    - remember, a slot can allow multiple possible substitutions
>    - at run time, a form containing a top level Entry, usually an
>    OBSERVATION will be deployed on the screen, and by a process of user choice
>    / UI movements etc, the data will get filled in, and subordinate CLUSTER
>    archetypes will be chosen on the way, and filled in along the way.
>
> This mode of operation is known by us in openEHR-land as 'dynamic
> slot-filling' or 'runtime templating', as opposed to the more typical
> design-time templating used in a lot of systems, where most of the choices
> are made prior to runtime. But openEHR systems do use runtime slot-filling
> as well, e.g. for writing discharge summaries and referrals, where the data
> items are only knowable in the encounter or report-writing session.
>
>
> This trend allows me to discover that openEHR already became a rich
> ecosystem. Isn't this technique close from Gerard's vision of archetypes as
> "context for concepts" in a kind of ontology?
>
> However, I probably wrongly expressed what I wanted to say, and is more
> theoretical than comparing implementations, such as openEHR and Ligne de
> vie.
>
> When we talk to one another using a natural language, we just need a
> vocabulary and a grammar. The grammar is simply a set of rules, but not a
> physical pattern. We say "John sees the green house" and not "John as the
> subject sees as the verb the green as an adjective house as a noon in a
> position of direct object complement".
>
> In the same way, it is possible to express a structured discourse just
> using an ontology and a grammatical structure (say trees) without the need
> of any structure description.
>
>
> you are I think using 'grammar' in an unusual way - normally it means the
> set of production rules that define legal utterances in some language; this
> is an intensional definition, i.e. it can be used computationally to parse
> actual utterances (including garbage) and generate structures only for the
> utterances obeying the rules of the grammar.
>
> In your usage, 'grammar' is what you call the trees, which are extensional
> maps of legal utterances, or fragments of utterances, which can only be
> connected together according to their rules, which ensure correctness of
> larger utterances, e.g. a colonoscopy report.
>
> Structurally and computationally then, the fils guides (the trees in Ligne
> de Vie) and archetypes are the same; they differ only in representational
> details. However, there are two semantic differences.
>
> Firstly, the fils guides depend completely on the ontology (which is an
> ontological terminology, to give it a more correct name, I think), and the
> two things are built as a combined representational system. Whereas
> elements in archetypes can have bindings made to ontologies and/or
> terminologies, but don't rely on them, since they can rely on their
> internal terminology to a reasonable extent (but not for value sets like
> procedure or diagnoses etc). In theory, we should do what fils guides are
> doing, and the reason we have not is only practical, not theoretical: the
> development of bio-medical ontologies is still young, and was almost
> non-existent 18 years ago when we started on this.
>
> The consequence has been that it is possible to construct archetypes that
> say questionable or even wrong things with respect to ontologies of those
> same things, say anatomical relationships. This rarely happens in reality
> simply because archetypes are built by clinical professionals and reviewed
> by many others, and mistakes tend to be avoided, or if made, caught in
> review. But clearly it's not a completely reliable strategy, and future
> versions of archetype tooling should force live checking against suitable
> ontologies to detect errors. Unfortunately, we still don't have such
> ontologies in anything like the necessary detail - despite the existence of
> OGMS, and numerous specialist OBO ontologies. SNOMED CT doesn't come close
> to what is needed here. We still lack a comprehensive ontology covering all
> of general medicine.
>
> Secondly, the 'utterances' represented by archetypes are not intended to
> be directly linguistic expressions, but rather constitute an underlying
> structural *reference* 'terminology'. The fils guides on the other hand
> express natural language utterances, i.e. they are like a structural
> *interface* terminology. With archetypes on the other hand, the names of
> elements are used as a default to name fields etc in the UI, but may always
> be overridden by some interface vocabulary, or more likely a layer of
> language-level templates tied back to templates based on archetypes. In
> openEHR we have no system for doing the latter at the moment, although it
> is often mentioned as a nice idea...
>
>
> - thomas
>
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