certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Beale
Christopher Feahr wrote: Dear Group, I have just recently joined your listserve, and have been actively participating in the HL7 EHR ballot discussion for only a few weeks. During the four years prior to that, I had been swimming in the HIPAA-EDI ocean, trying to figure out how the operational

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Beale
I should have also mentioned another reason why local EMRs have to be left intact, at least for the time being - it is te psychological one that their owners will not feel as if they are having their system taken away from them. - t - If you have any questions about using this list, please

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Beale
Thomas Clark wrote: What was your study to do with? this is the meat of the problem... STUDY: -several counties in California and Nevada ranging from agriculture to forestry and their current healthcare systems -current budgetary constraints and potential for new funding -can they develop

FW: Encoding concept-relationships in openehr archetypes.

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Beale
This is a post we didn't resolve, and I would like to re-address the question. Unfortunately, I cannot resolve either of your links Jim...can you provide new URLs? - thomas Jim Warren wrote: Dear Tom et al: This is my de-lurking for the list. For those of you who dont' know me, I'm a

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread hopti...@aol.com
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Encoding concept-relationships in openehr archetypes.

2003-08-04 Thread Gerard Freriks
Hi, Is it? Is it about how to represent the domain normal values? Or is it more general: Are concepts related? Then the problem is: what relations are there between concepts (archetypes)? What semantics of these relationships between archetypes (concepts) do we need to describe reallity

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Thomas, Thank you for your comments. At the moment, the healthcare industry relies on a federated, duplicative system of paper and electronic records. The fragmentation of provider-resources and of healthcare tasks themselves, combined with the long life spans and great mobility of patients are

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Clark
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certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Philippe, Thank you for the comments. I believe that we will have islands of health information for a very long time... for many reasons, some of which are not technically sound, but more the result of convention. On the other hand, the islands do facilitate an inherent security and

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Thomas, Thanks! And I hardly know where to begin responding... but I do like all of your comments. The thing about providers being considered a homogeneous group of individuals working for the common good is really a matter of philosophical and, perhaps, spiritual orientation. I agree that we

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Tim, RE: That might be an accurate description of the US healthcare system, but thankfully the US system is restricted (more or less) to the US, despite attempts to export it and despite attempts by misguided politicians elsewhere to copy it(snip)... Thus, although dreams of regional or

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Tim, I can imagine several workable funding models for healthcare. The one we have in the US is simply the straightforward selling services for $, perverted by the brokerage model that insurance has superimposed on it. In my personal opinion, neither model makes sense for a service like

versioned parties (was Re: certification and verification ofOpenEHR)

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Feahr
Tim, Data mining and ad hoc queries does not sound out of scope to me. Sounds like a primary use for the EHR-data. Christopher J. Feahr, O.D. Optiserv Consulting (Vision Industry) Office: (707) 579-4984 Cell: (707) 529-2268 http://Optiserv.com http://VisionDataStandard.org - Original Message

certification and verification of OpenEHR

2003-08-04 Thread lakew...@copper.net
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the response! The regional approach serves the project well initially. The original post should have included some idea of what I think a 'tool' would be. Top-down, it should permit a proper user to identify the subject (difficult in some cases, e.g., where only an infant