Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Sam Heard
ounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Ian McNicoll > Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2011 7:38 PM > To: For openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications > > Hi Diego, > > The issue is that that the 'current version' of the EHR should re

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Sam Heard
...@openehr.org] On Behalf Of Rong Chen Sent: Monday, 12 December 2011 6:31 PM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications Ian, This is indeed a very interesting question. I am inclined to think revision based approach seems to be more

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
--- On Tue, 13/12/11, Ian McNicoll wrote: From: Ian McNicoll Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: "For openEHR clinical discussions" Date: Tuesday, 13 December, 2011, 11:19 Hi Jag, It is a little simplistic, since it is quite common for the recording

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Gerard Freriks
The precise 'choreography' of these things like versions, updates, error corrections, etc. can not be solved in a standard. The standard must be so flexible that it can document whatever choices are made by the implementation. Then it is a deployment issue for implementers to solve. Gerard Frer

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Ian McNicoll
e or a future date. > Reissue and repeat prescriptions are just descriptions of a prescription. > > Regards > > Jag > > > Dr. S Jagannathan > > --- On *Mon, 12/12/11, Sam Heard * wrote: > > > From: Sam Heard > Subject: RE: Revision of Instructions - clinical implic

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
ATHAN Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 3:06 AM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications ? If that is the case. then there really is no need for Instruction separately as such. The 'what' can be specified and the context may be ob

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Gerard, I agree, but openEHR is not just about standards, it is about implementation and we need to be able to think through the implications of particular approaches, where different options are available. The issues being discussed are directly related to the openEHR specifications and not p

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Ian McNicoll
r openEHR clinical discussions >> Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications >> >> Hi Diego, >> >> The issue is that that the 'current version' of the EHR should reflect >> what is currently believed to be true and 'safe' about

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-13 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Diego, The issue is that that the 'current version' of the EHR should reflect what is currently believed to be true and 'safe' about the patient's record without having to trawl through previous versions. So If I query for all medication orders, I should get back the original order, as well as

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Rong Chen
As Thomas said, the versioning of Instructions happens anyways, on the technical implementation level. So I guess what Ian is after is more on the clinical level - which way is more intuitive to the clinicians. I know cases where the dose changes are anticipated, e.g. based on lab tests, temperatu

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Diego Boscá
then if this already happens, I don't understand Ian's question 2011/12/12 Thomas Beale : > On 12/12/2011 09:14, Diego Bosc? wrote: >> If revision means changing and losing the original data (the 200 value >> is lost forever) then I think we shouldn't do that. As a bad >> prescribed medication can

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Diego Boscá
If revision means changing and losing the original data (the 200 value is lost forever) then I think we shouldn't do that. As a bad prescribed medication can harm the patient I think we need always to be able to track the source of the problem. If revision is supposed to store original and revised

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Rong Chen
Ian, This is indeed a very interesting question. I am inclined to think revision based approach seems to be more intuitive here if the update is not due to an obvious dosing error. Cheers, Rong On 11 December 2011 12:06, Ian McNicoll wrote: > Interesting discussion but so far no-one has address

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Sam Heard
environment. Cheers, Sam From: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@openehr.org] On Behalf Of S JAGANNATHAN Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 3:06 AM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications If

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Sam Heard
penehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@openehr.org] On Behalf Of S JAGANNATHAN Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 2:45 AM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications Following a clinical examination/consulta

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Sam Heard
-boun...@openehr.org [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Seref Arikan Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 2:24 AM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications would it be wrong to say instruction = request; action = response ?

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Sam Heard
2011 1:14 AM > To: openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications > > There is a discussion on the technical lists about handling > INSTRUCTIONS and subsequent ACTIONS in openEHR. Heather Leslie has > provided an excellent explanation o

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Beale
On 12/12/2011 09:14, Diego Bosc? wrote: > If revision means changing and losing the original data (the 200 value > is lost forever) then I think we shouldn't do that. As a bad > prescribed medication can harm the patient I think we need always to > be able to track the source of the problem. If rev

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-12 Thread rjsea...@gmail.com
Hi Thomas, As I was typing my previous email, I wished I 'said out-loud' what was going through my mind, that it was going down the HL7 fork in the road.. I offered it to clarify prior conversations that seemed to be becoming circular, rather than propose a HL7 model. I understand that if there is

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Heather Leslie
In your specific scenario I agree that it's a new order - stop the original order and commence a new one with the appropriate dosage or frequency. Heather Sent from my phone On 11/12/2011, at 22:06, Ian McNicoll wrote: > Interesting discussion but so far no-one has addressed my original

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Beale
On 11/12/2011 19:51, rjsearle at gmail.com wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > As I was typing my previous email, I wished I 'said out-loud' what was > going through my mind, that it was going down the HL7 fork in the > road.. I offered it to clarify prior conversations that seemed to be > becoming circular

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Colin Sutton
From: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org [openehr-clinical-bounces at > openehr.org] On Behalf Of Eunice Ab [euniceab at googlemail.com] > Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 3:26 AM > To: For openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical impli

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread rjsea...@gmail.com
ent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 5:20 PM > To: For openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications > > Agreed,that is exactly how I understood it. So strictly speaking the > instruction is an action preceding another action!! > > Sent f

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Colin Sutton
27;replaced') by another instruction. Colin From: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org [openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Eunice Ab [eunic...@googlemail.com] Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 3:26 AM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Revision of Instructi

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Heath Frankel
-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of pablo pazos Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 8:43 AM To: openehr clinical Subject: RE: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications But we are talking about the openEHR model, so we should consider the semantics of the terms we use based on those

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Beale
On 11/12/2011 12:16, Heather Leslie wrote: > In your specific scenario I agree that it's a new order - stop the > original order and commence a new one with the appropriate dosage or > frequency. > > Heather IN that case, what you would have chronologically in openEHR is: * INSTRUCTION (#

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Beale
On 11/12/2011 11:06, Ian McNicoll wrote: > Interesting discussion but so far no-one has addressed my original > question, other than Thomas, and I do not think we can assume that a > Medication list is necessarily modelled as a persistent composition. > Even then I suspect the same issue still a

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Beale
On 11/12/2011 07:14, rjsearle at gmail.com wrote: > Sounds like: > action = instruct > result = new instruction (eg take your tablets) > > subsequently: > action = follow instruction (take tablets) > result = tablets taken > > So if I understand this correctly, the instruction is NOT the act of >

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Gerard Freriks
Ian, Medication list in my book is a kind of Folder or Section that assembles data and information already stored in the Patient Record. The data is stored in (formally committed to) the database. Any change after the data is committed needs to be recorded fully in the audit trail. Time, commit

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Beale
On 11/12/2011 05:06, Colin Sutton wrote: > An instruction is an imperative e.g. "Take two tablets daily", the action is > "Took the tablets" or "Forgot the tablets" or "Ignored the instruction". > The instruction stays the same, or is superseded (figuratively 'replaced') by > another instruction.

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Jussara macedo
RA medication revision shall be a new entry always, even if it?s only to change the dosage...because you have to enter a new information at a different point of time. We have to differentiate acts from actions, although for both of them there?s a doing in the sense of the word, therefore they are

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Ian McNicoll
Interesting discussion but so far no-one has addressed my original question, other than Thomas, and I do not think we can assume that a Medication list is necessarily modelled as a persistent composition. Even then I suspect the same issue still arises. We do not want to hide the previous valid Ins

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Dra Carola Hullin Lucay Cossio
...@btinternet.com Subject: RE: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org I have to humbly disagree that there will be any loss of historical information. As I said before I have no intention of trying to change anything about open ehr and would personally wish to

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Gerard Freriks
Dear Jagannathan, I see the big confusion developing. There is HL7 thinking and 13606 thinking. (and openEHR thinking) In HL7 'the act' of documentation is modeled as an Act with a specific mood code. In 13606 'the act' of documentation is about either an Observation archetype, an Evaluation ar

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread Jussara
Hi, Think it's easy to distinguish one from another if you think on a paper record. Instructions and actions are separated there. Instructions are the orders ( instructions) recorded when finishing patient 's evaluation and actions are recorded when they were either performed, or suspended, o

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-11 Thread S Jagannathan
cal-bounces at openehr.org [openehr-clinical-bounces at > openehr.org] On Behalf Of Eunice Ab [euniceab at googlemail.com] > Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2011 3:26 AM > To: For openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications > > Hello

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
pazos wrote: From: pablo pazos Subject: RE: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: "openehr clinical" Date: Saturday, 10 December, 2011, 23:13 But we are talking about the openEHR model, so we should consider the semantics of the terms we use based on those semanti

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:02:57 + From: sjagannat...@btinternet.com Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org When you instruct someone do to something then it is an action. Jag --- On Sat, 10/12/11, Thomas Beale wrote: From: Thomas Beale

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread pablo pazos
com/ppazos Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:18:54 + From: sjagannat...@btinternet.com Subject: RE: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org Not an expert on' openEHR semantics' But in simple terms it is still a matter of something + an attribut

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread pablo pazos
. Pablo Pazos Guti?rrez LinkedIn: http://uy.linkedin.com/in/pablopazosgutierrez Blog: http://informatica-medica.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:02:57 + From: sjagannat...@btinternet.com Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
Marking Actions as something 'done', 'not done', etc is normal of course. In openEHR, such actions can be matched up with states in the abstract state machine, so that you can query afterward on what is active, suspended, completed etc. But things like 'intended' are not meaningful possibiliti

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Eunice Ab
Hi I thought the data structures were to support the clinicians workflow view. I just wondered why you mentioned the 'Act' model would not work. As Jag explained all the things he listed including instructions are all actions . and why do we have to restrict the definition of 'an action' to w

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Seref Arikan
uch as for a procedure- proposed, done, not done, postponed, > recommended, instructed(as well!) etc. and for drugs-prescribed, taken, > dispensed etc. > > Jag > > > > --- On *Sat, 10/12/11, Thomas Beale oceaninformatics.com>*wrote: > > > From: Thomas B

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
prescribed, taken, dispensed etc. Jag --- On Sat, 10/12/11, Thomas Beale wrote: From: Thomas Beale Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org Date: Saturday, 10 December, 2011, 17:15 In a trivial sense that is

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
Well in an HL7 modelling view of the world this would be true. But ontologically it is not, if 'action' means something that was done, which is what it means in openEHR. All Actions in openEHR are 'actual'. An Action may be used to record some clinical thing being 'not done' as well, since tha

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
: Eunice Ab Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: "For openEHR clinical discussions" Date: Saturday, 10 December, 2011, 17:04 Hi Thomas and Seref Many thanks for your response ... this was what I thought too but then does that not mean that all that is ne

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
In a trivial sense that is of course true. But the interesting part of an Instruction is /what /is being instructed, which is where the potential complexity lies. - thomas On 10/12/2011 17:02, S JAGANNATHAN wrote: > When you instruct someone do to something then it is an action. > > > Jag

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
On 10/12/2011 17:04, Eunice Ab wrote: > Hi Thomas and Seref > > Many thanks for your response ... this was what I thought too but > then does that not mean that all that is needed to be able to capture > both under actions is an attribute of 'type' for 'intended' and > 'actual' OR 'request'

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Eunice Ab
Hi Thomas and Seref Many thanks for your response ... this was what I thought too but then does that not mean that all that is needed to be able to capture both under actions is an attribute of 'type' for 'intended' and 'actual' OR 'request' and 'response' rather than separating them to remov

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
When you instruct someone do to something then it is an action. Jag --- On Sat, 10/12/11, Thomas Beale wrote: From: Thomas Beale Subject: Re: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org Date: Saturday, 10 December, 2011, 16:49 Instruction defines

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
Further: an Instruction might not get performed at all. But you want a record of it anyway. - thomas On 10/12/2011 16:49, Thomas Beale wrote: > Instruction defines what Activities should be performed. Actions record > the execution of those activities, which might not be exactly the same > as w

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Seref Arikan
would it be wrong to say instruction = request; action = response ? On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Thomas Beale < thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > > Instruction defines what Activities should be performed. Actions record > the execution of those activities, which might not be exac

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
Instruction defines what Activities should be performed. Actions record the execution of those activities, which might not be exactly the same as what was ordained. So Instruction = intended; Action = actual. - thomas On 10/12/2011 16:00, S JAGANNATHAN wrote: > Isn't 'Instruction' itself an a

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Beale
On 10/12/2011 15:44, Ian McNicoll wrote: > > I am not totally comfortable with this approach, since it feels to me > as if we are asserting that the original order was incorrect. This > would obviously be ok if we were indeed correcting an order which had > never been actioned but for a valid, acti

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Ian McNicoll
There is a discussion on the technical lists about handling INSTRUCTIONS and subsequent ACTIONS in openEHR. Heather Leslie has provided an excellent explanation of the process but there is one comment that I feel merits some further clinical discussion. "But: how is that change of the Instruction

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread Eunice Ab
Hello I think I have asked this question before. I always wondered why 'instructions' were separated from 'actions' as I thought an 'instruction' was an 'action' too. I really look forward to the answer to the question. Many thanks. Eunice Eunice Bamgboye -- next part -

Revision of Instructions - clinical implications

2011-12-10 Thread S JAGANNATHAN
Isn't 'Instruction' itself an action? Jag Dr. S Jagannathan 198 St Johns Road Edinburgh EH12 8SQ --- On Sat, 10/12/11, Ian McNicoll wrote: From: Ian McNicoll Subject: Revision of Instructions - clinical implications To: "openEHR clinical discussions" Date: Saturd