Dear All,

Please remove me from this listserv.

Best,

Danny

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 6:18 AM Bert Verhees <bert.verh...@rosa.nl> wrote:

> I agree that merging is (normally) only interesting for persistent
> compositions, that are the only kind of compositions which are candidat for
> simultaneously editing (branching), and then afterwards merging of the
> branches is needed.
>
> I think, getting rid of the persistent compositions would solve these
> problems. I don't see objections against medication-lists in normal
> compositions. Maybe the persistent composition idea was something from the
> old days to have all medications handy together?
>
> If that is so, than we can consider that this way of preordening  is not
> anymore needed because modern systems can quickly find medication-entries,
> and the extra advantage is that branching and merging is then also not
> needed anymore.
>
> Best regards
> Bert Verhees
>
> Op vr 18 aug. 2017 15:18 schreef Thomas Beale <thomas.be...@openehr.org>:
>
>>
>> Naturally I am all for revising the specs (it's what we do ;) and
>> throwing out dead stuff. But one thing I have realised over the years is
>> that many of the scenarios (such as multi-system syncing) we thought of in
>> the 1990s and early 200s are only just coming onto the radar now. Progress
>> is much slower than many of us thought.
>>
>> Consequently, some types of implementation experience gained so far -
>> particularly anything cross-enterprise or regional - is not going to be an
>> indicator to the future. Of course, some kinds of experience, say with
>> using the RM, or ADL 1.4, AQL etc, has been giving us all the feedback that
>> we needed to make the updates we are currently making to the specifications.
>>
>> Probably what we should consider in this case is an update to the Change
>> control spec that describes a variant or guideline for using the model to
>> implement linear versioning, while allowing for later addition of branched
>> versioning when/if needed.
>>
>> - thomas
>>
>> On 18/08/2017 12:49, Pablo Pazos wrote:
>>
>> From Thomas comments, it is clear that we have such last two use cases,
>> internal versioning and cross-system versioning / sync / consolidation.
>>
>> Consider people here is talking about their own experience with the specs
>> under the use case they implemented. We can argue that internal versioning
>> is needed in 100% of the implementations while cross-system is a much less
>> implemented case. This doesn't mean that the current specs are not usable
>> and useful in abstract, but we should contextualize the discussion by use
>> case and by the frequency each is implemented.
>>
>>  For internal versioning it is clear that distributed versioning spec
>> generate some friction at implementation time. IMO we need to address both
>> use cases trying to minimize friction for new developers. That can improve
>> the quality of the specs without print anything out.
>>
>> Also, I would like to hear more about implementations of both use cases
>> and the challenges implementers had to really validate the idea of
>> addressing both use cases explicitly in the specs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pablo.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2017 5:39 AM, "Seref Arikan" <
>> serefari...@kurumsalteknoloji.com> wrote:
>>
>> I did not realise that this discussion reached the point of suggesting
>> that distributed versioning is taken out from the specs. I have been
>> designing and implementing lots of openEHR data syncing functionality which
>> relies on the distributed versioning specifications. I have heaps of work
>> pending, which will also use that part of the specs. I can tell you that
>> the current specs have worked just fine for me so far and they are up to
>> the same high quality as the rest of the specifications, so they are
>> absolutely usable and useful.
>>
>> The challenges of distributed versioning does not eliminate the need for
>> them, so I cannot agree with the suggestion to remove them.  Sure, move
>> them around in the specs all you want, but please keep them.
>>
>> All the best
>> Seref
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Beale <thomas.be...@openehr.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> distributed versioning with branching was included to allow syncing of
>>> data gathered about the same patient in different EHR repositories. For
>>> most data, syncing the repos is trivial, since it's different data.
>>>
>>> The classic cases of potential clashes is medication list, problem list,
>>> basic clinical demographic data, etc. If a sync was started and two
>>> medication lists are found that are forks of a single earlier one, a manual
>>> merge will be required.
>>>
>>> We are only just starting to see the implementation of systems where
>>> syncing may be a question, so although there may be adjustments to make to
>>> the branched versioning model, I would not be in favour of throwing it out
>>> at this point.
>>>
>>> We are however going to move it to the BASE component and make it a
>>> standalone model.
>>>
>>> - thomas
>>>
>>> On 21/06/2017 09:19, Pablo Pazos wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bert, see below
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Bert Verhees <bert.verh...@rosa.nl>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Pablo, I did it a few years ago, just dumped not-current versions in
>>>> a slow XML database, because, in normal cases they are never queried, and
>>>> when they need to be queried, there can always be found a faster solution.
>>>>
>>>> But of course, this was a linear version system. ExistDB supports
>>>> distributed versioning on XML out of the box. And you can also use a
>>>> normal, not OpenEHR, version system like Git or VCL.
>>>>
>>>> But when looking at how OpenEHR works, is there ever need of merging?
>>>> Do people edit concurrently same datasets? I think they are they always
>>>> working on new versions of datasets, there is only one exception, that is
>>>> the persistent Composition, there could occur merging problems.
>>>>
>>>> The openEHR versioning mechanism is like Git. The problem I see with
>>> this approach is that real users don't want to deal with that level of
>>> complexity just to track changes in a distributed way. openEHR allows
>>> branching, so if there is no merging, each user can be working on a
>>> different branch, seeing just part of the data. Merging is complex, but
>>> that is needed only if branching is allowed, so the problem is really
>>> branching.
>>>
>>> With branches, when a query is executed, it is getting data form the
>>> latest version of the CURRENT branch, potentially missing data from other
>>> branches. This might have patient safety issues also.
>>>
>>> That is the main reason I ask this because it is not clear to me that a
>>> good technical solution like distributed versioning, is the best for EHRs.
>>> Moreover considering that most documents will have 1 or 2 versions at most
>>> (talking about event). Of course there will be more versions for persistent
>>> compos.
>>>
>>> *Thinking out loud, wouldn't be interesting to have an alternative spec
>>> for versioning where only linear versions are allowed? (IMO that would be
>>> easier to implement even though the current spec includes that case).*
>>>
>>>
>>>> But I think, you don't need distributed versioning to handle this, a
>>>> locking system (like databases have) is, I think, good enough. That is how
>>>> classic EHR builders handle concurrency.
>>>>
>>>> Bert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21-06-17 03:04, Pablo Pazos wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I had this questions in mind for a long time: did someone implemented
>>>> the distributed versioning of openEHR?
>>>>
>>>> The specs define a great distributed versioning mechanism but it is a
>>>> little trickier to implement. Also there is no clear who will do the work
>>>> of managing that, and how that structure will be queried. It is very
>>>> difficult to me to think of an amendment sent to an EHR and that not being
>>>> available for all the parties looking at the EHR of the patient.
>>>>
>>>> In the case of the EHRServer I built, only linear versioning is
>>>> possible, there is only one latest version for each compo, and queries only
>>>> get data from latest versions.
>>>>
>>>> Just wondering, what do others did for versioning and what policies do
>>>> you have if you implemented the distributed approach in terms of branching,
>>>> merging and querying.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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