Units, Quantities, etc

2012-03-19 Thread Stef Verlinden
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 18 mrt. 2012 om 15:15 heeft Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com het volgende geschreven: I still think Quantities should be computable as such - if we don't know how many mcg of substance 3 puffs is, we can't compute with it. Although i tend to

13606 revisited - list proposal

2011-12-15 Thread Stef Verlinden
I asume there is no subscription fee for openEHR members. Cheers, Stef Op 15 dec. 2011, om 11:33 heeft Gerard Freriks het volgende geschreven: For more information about the EN13606 Association and the Seville meeting I refer to: www.en13606.org Non-members that want to participate in

Fwd: [openEHR-announce] CIMI group goes with openEHR archetypes UML profile

2011-12-14 Thread Stef Verlinden
Congratulations to all who made this possible and to ourselves This is a crucial 'breaktrough' which will pave the way towards future proof health records which will be widely accepted and used. Cheers, Stef Begin doorgestuurd bericht: Van: Thomas Beale thomas.beale at

Could YAML replace dADL as human readable AOM serialization format?

2011-12-06 Thread Stef Verlinden
+1 Cheers, Stef Op 6 dec. 2011, om 12:44 heeft Seref Arikan het volgende geschreven: Please do not get me wrong, all the discussion we are having here is useful, it is just that in my humble opinion, some discussions are more useful than others if this standard into which I am heavily

openEHR Transition: two procedural and one licensing question

2011-09-07 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 7 sep 2011, om 09:55 heeft Erik Sundvall het volgende geschreven: Do read that wikipage and follow the links there to the mail discussions. What is it that you think is missing or unclear in the arguments against SA? That they're hidden in a lot of text form which one has to follow

Fwd: [openEHR-announce] openEHR Transition Announcement

2011-09-06 Thread Stef Verlinden
Very good news indeed. This is exactly what is needed to bring openEHR to where it belongs, at the center of the healthcare. Just out of curiosity, who are these Associates, will they raise sufficient money and how long will it take before these become plans effective. The sooner the better is

openEHR Transition: two procedural and one licensing question

2011-09-06 Thread Stef Verlinden
Hi Eric, Good that you bring up the SA + or - discussion again. In order to make the best decision can you please provide us with these arguments and, if possible, with the names of those companies/organisations. Cheers, Stef Op 6 sep 2011, om 16:51 heeft Erik Sundvall het volgende

Multiple archetypes in a single concept as a way to create an archetype collaborative

2011-08-03 Thread Stef Verlinden
Just to add to this. Another great aspect of openEHR is the separation of the technical and medical (content) aspect. In the clinical knowlegde manager (which Thomas already referred to) clinicians can cooperate to create archetype without have to think about the technical aspects. As for the

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-10 Thread Stef Verlinden
And it's to simplistic too. In that case one also would like to know allergic to which specific type(s) and/or components of penicillin. In that case I also would like to know how that was tested, when and who did that etc., etc. So I guess what's I'm trying to say is: What's the value of such

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-09 Thread Stef Verlinden
To make thing even more complicated (we discussed this already some years ago) the question should be: Does the patient have diabetes according to the definition used commonly in this practice/ hospital/ county/ country/ part of the world. Don't remember it exactly but back then I could easily

Joint HL7 RIMBAA / OpenEHR implementers list

2011-01-26 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear Rene, This is good news. Great blog too. I really like the initiative to start a joint feasability project. I'm confident that there will be a outcome that will not only work for all parties involved but also creates synergy. Is it an idea that based on the presumed positive outcome of

ISO 21090

2010-11-25 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear Grahame, Op 23 nov 2010, om 14:24 heeft Grahame Grieve het volgende geschreven: It appears that Tom and I may jointly develop a variant of ISO 21090, that features the same basic semantic content, but in a format that is suitable for use in systems rather than for exchange. It will

World Peace

2010-11-22 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear all, As Ed Hammond said it somewhere earlier in this discussion: It's like World Peace - a great idea but probably not achievable. I agree with Ed if we think along the line of ?one solution should fit all? and I also think that if we create different solutions for different purposes

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-08 Thread Stef Verlinden
Great, do you have a link where they can be found/seen. Cheers, Stef Op 8 nov 2010, om 21:02 heeft Williamtfgoossen at cs.com het volgende geschreven: In a message dated 8-11-2010 15:38:26 W. Europe Standard Time, thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com writes: I have been asking HL7 since

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-07 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear Ed, Thanks for your clear and frank contribution to this discussion. Although I don't always agree with the boldness of Tom's remarks and I'm one of those people with 'little competence' (although I tent to think that I understand what is being engineered), I can understand his

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-07 Thread Stef Verlinden
It looks like we're getting to the heart of the matter here. What I really would like to know from the others what their opinion's on these subjects are? If it indeed turns out to be true that Tom don't understand how datatypes, RIM or data types are working, we, as the openEHR community,

Term bindings in archetypes and templates

2010-03-11 Thread Stef Verlinden
For those of you interested in the 'problems' within Snomed as an ontology, here (http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3465/version/1) you can find a good and recent article describing them. This doesn't mean we shouldn't use Snomed, but knowing where the problems are is helpful to find

Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-10 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 10 feb 2010, om 11:37 heeft Gerard Freriks het volgende geschreven: It is imperative that DCM's are absolutely free to use and in the public domain. CEN/ISO and ANSI assure that with the standardisation IP rules in general. DCM's must be absolutely free from IP problems, well maintained

Fwd: Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-10 Thread Stef Verlinden
over sudden openEHR seems to have become the 'enemy'. I hope it shows up correctly this time. Does anybody know why/how this 'mesh-up' happens? Begin doorgestuurd bericht: Van: Stef Verlinden stef at vivici.nl Datum: 10 februari 2010 13:05:01 GMT+01:00 Aan: For openEHR technical

Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-10 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 10 feb 2010, om 14:07 heeft Bert Verhees het volgende geschreven: It is not the juridical status of a company that makes the difference for the IP-status of something. If an organization is not-for-profit or for-profit, both can issue all kinds of IP-licenses. The company form has

{Disarmed} Re: Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-01 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 1 feb 2010, om 10:33 heeft Charlie McCay het volgende geschreven: More is needed to ensure that information can be safely reused and combined. Dear Alberto, Can you please explain what this 'more' is and provide some examples for a non-technical person like myself. Cheers, Stef Op 1

Meaningful use criteria

2010-01-14 Thread Stef Verlinden
Is anybody following the current discussion in the US about the meaningful use citeri and/or is anybody actively involved? The published criteria can be found here: http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/PDFgate.cgi?WAISdocID=467405454267+0+2+0WAISaction=retrieve Is just scanned it very

License and copyright of archetypes

2009-10-02 Thread Stef Verlinden
Hi Erik, I see your point and agree. My call for the -SA extension was based on the idea of reciprocity. So let's go for CC-BY. Cheers, Stef (I sended this reaction earlier but for an unknown reason only to Eric. So now for the whole group. Although I still believe in the idea of

Documentation Desparation

2009-09-26 Thread Stef Verlinden
+2 Stef Op 26 sep 2009, om 08:13 heeft Grahame Grieve het volgende geschreven: +1 Grahame Sent from my iPhone On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Koray Atalag koray at cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: Hi All, I really appreciate the mental exercise to achieve a better documentation; however I

Concept Overload Caution

2009-06-23 Thread Stef Verlinden
Hi Heath, I complety agree with you. Let's all do what we're best at. What I would like to add to your proposal is some feedback (both ways) so doctors and technicians can learn from eachother. Rather than de- empowering the one or the other I think we should team up to create a properly

Announcement of the release of Opereffa by the openEHR Foundation

2009-06-10 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear Tony, David and Seref, Congratulations to you (and to the openEHR community). This is truly very good news, great work and a major milestone for the openEHR community. I'm confident that this will boost many efforts that are out there a helps to focus our energy as well as to show the

Reverse_relationships

2009-05-07 Thread Stef Verlinden
I've been working through the demographic AT's that were provided by Sergio. It's probably due to my lack of technical knowlegde but I can't find where reverse_relationships are defined in these archetypes. Or it must be in openEHR-DEMOGRAPHIC- ROLE.health_consumer.v1 under: relationships

2009 and beyond

2009-01-20 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear Tony, You're the new chair now for almost 6 months. Can you provide us with some views/ outlooks of what is going to happen in 2009 and beyond. Are there any plans/ ideas to set up an official (top level?) archetype repository so that one unified set of archetypes is being created. If

is OpenEHR.org down?

2009-01-12 Thread Stef Verlinden
working now Ian On 1/11/09, Stef Verlinden stef at vivici.nl wrote: It seems down indeed. Cheers, Stef Op 11 jan 2009, om 14:34 heeft Seref Arikan het volgende geschreven: Hi there, I can not access to openehr.org from Turkey at the moment, and I've also tried a proxy in USA

is OpenEHR.org down?

2009-01-11 Thread Stef Verlinden
It seems down indeed. Cheers, Stef Op 11 jan 2009, om 14:34 heeft Seref Arikan het volgende geschreven: Hi there, I can not access to openehr.org from Turkey at the moment, and I've also tried a proxy in USA. Is it me only, or is the site down? Kind Regards Seref

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Stef Verlinden
Thomas. Op 7-okt-2008, om 17:10 heeft Thomas Beale het volgende geschreven: Governments need to understand these realities, or they will continue to find it difficult to see how to apply any of the competing standards available today. I have to say that I don't find this report

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Stef Verlinden
could have known that. Luckely the Istanbul meeting is in 2 weeks so there is plenty of time to come up with an alternative document in which al of your brilliant analyses are put togehter. I really encourage you to do so. Cheers, Stef regards, eric browne On 08/10/2008, at 7:05 PM, Stef

Question on the role of EHR reference models for achieving functional interoperability

2008-06-24 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear Georg, Op 24-jun-2008, om 12:16 heeft Georg Duftschmid het volgende geschreven: I am now wondering why an EHR reference model is seen to be REQUIRED for achieving functional interoperability. If I exchange bare PDF-documents (without any describing metadata) between two EHR

Decision Support was: MIE-2008

2008-06-05 Thread Stef Verlinden
Hi Ian and Gerard, Could you please explain what post-coordination is and maybe provide an example of post- (and pre-?) coordination? Cheers, Stef Op 5-jun-2008, om 0:48 heeft Ian McNicoll het volgende geschreven: most post-coordination (using modifiers in Snomed-space instead of

openEHR Querying specifications

2008-06-04 Thread Stef Verlinden
I'm not a technical person but to me it seems very cumbersome if such 'differences' could exist between 2 versions of the same archetypes. This would mean that for every query one has to go into detail of every version of that AT which could mean al lot of work. To my understanding versions

openEHR Querying specifications

2008-06-04 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 4-jun-2008, om 10:23 heeft Thomas Beale het volgende geschreven: I hope this clarifies things Absolutely, thanks. Stef -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

MIE-2008

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Verlinden
Hi all, Here's my positive reaction:-). We started some discussion around this topic back in November. One of the other items we discussed then was a place for 'openEHR' presentations that could be used by others under a common creative (or other) license. Although I can find several

{Disarmed} Comparison of EHR models

2008-01-18 Thread Stef Verlinden
Dear all, Recently an article by Bernd Blobel was published in the Dutch HL7 magazine (Dec 07 issue) in which he compares the different EHR models: openEHR, HL7v3, EN/ISO 13606 and CCR. Robert Stegwee, the chair of HL7.nl, kindly translates this article in Dutch, which unfortunately makes

Antw: Re: Compact XML format...?

2007-11-24 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 24-nov-2007, om 7:45 heeft Williamtfgoossen at cs.com het volgende geschreven: V3 has no various implementations, Can you, in this light explain what Barry Smith is talking about in his HL7-watch blog (http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/, the text is also underneath). Probably I don't

Antw: Re: Antw: Re: Compact XML format...?

2007-11-24 Thread Stef Verlinden
Op 24-nov-2007, om 17:14 heeft b.cohen het volgende geschreven: No. A good standard should ensure that all implementations that satisfy it are mutually interoperable (see, for example, the Whitworth stanard for nuts and bolts!). This requires that: 1. the standard include the the tests

Multiple parents and max number of nested specialized archetypes?

2007-10-18 Thread Stef Verlinden
ah - 'data quality' in other words - i.e. markers / meta-data relating to the data capture from the source, not the integrity of the data as represented on the openEHR system? I would like to expand that to data quality assurance. How can one objectively and according to locally accepted

Hidden reference model stuff in template

2007-05-31 Thread Stef Verlinden
Hi Thio, Thanks for this excellent explanation. Although it remains a steep learning curve for a 'non-technical' person, it certainly provides a better insight in this 'tough' material. One last remark to explain my question. I while ago Thomas Beale demonstrated the OI template builder,

Hidden reference model stuff in template

2007-05-30 Thread Stef Verlinden
Maybe this question should be asked on the technical mailing list, since there's no reaction on the clinical list:-) Cheers, Stef Begin doorgestuurd bericht: Van: Stef Verlinden stef at vivici.nl Datum: 24 mei 2007 12:00:43 GMT+02:00 Aan: For openEHR clinical discussions openehr-clinical