2011/9/18 Hau, Dave (NIH/NCI) [E] <ha...@mail.nih.gov> > Jim, I was thinking more about units of content as in a container storing > properties from different classes, for a clinical purpose. The classic > example here is when an EHR needs to store or report a blood pressure > measurement, what are the various data elements that need to be reported to > provide enough context to interpret the reading. >
Here's a nice overview of Detailed Clinical Models https://docs.google.com/document/d/11xGZs4drfwb7TY15Iwpk52UIxZcFhqMcMp1i3yV4To8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 For the classical BP, and other Vitals Signs examples, it would be interrsting to see see a real example of clinical data using the BFO based Vital Signs Ontology http://bio-ontologies.knowledgeblog.org/155 Kerstin Forsberg AstraZeneca