> Thanks for delineating the differences between these approaches. While
I agree with you 100% that it is helpful to divide the architecture into the
information [infrastructure] architecture and clinical information models,
the OIO (and myself) take the position that the information models need not
be pre-defined. Hence, the focus of the OIO is on the *infrastructure* that
facilitates the creation, re-use, and archival/retrival of the user-defined
"information models".
> This means that with the OIO, there is democracy at the level of
"information model".
Sorry, this might be a dumb question, but how would you actually data mine
such a chaotically growing structure salad at a public health level? This is
ultimately what we want to achieve, isn't it? Gather information on a broad
base to facilitate evidence based medicine, isn't it? I fail to see how
that can be achieved without centrally defined data structures and term
glossaries.
Horst
