Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Beale
On 21/06/2012 19:07, Gerard Freriks wrote: So to summarise, it came down to finding categories on which /health information data structures /- i.e. information models - could be based that would work reliably for most if not all of medicine. Now, having used these categories for some

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-22 Thread Gerard Freriks
Yes. It all is about classifying. It is all about proper definitions we all share and use. I believe that when we all interpret the definitions in our own way in our own data bases all is working nicely. The moment we start to exchange this data we will discover that we are not interoperable,

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Beale
On 20/06/2012 20:30, Diego Bosc? wrote: So you have to select the ITEM_STRUCTURE class but you don't have to select the EVENT class? (most CKM archetypes have now EVENT and not INTERVAL_EVENT or POINT_EVENT) I think it should be allowed/forbidden following only one criteria. * * in

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Thomas / Diego, As far as the published archetypes are concerned we will have thought fairly carefully about if and when to constrain EVENT to Point or Interval, and this is definitely something that should be applied at template level in most cases but, as ever, we have to be careful not to

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Athanasios Anastasiou
Hello Ian and everyone Thank you for your response. (a) and (b) are clear but not towards what the question is really about. I wouldn't like this to drag on too much so maybe it's better if i implement it the way i understand it and correct any errors afterwards. All the best Athanasios

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Diego Boscá
Hi Thomas Ian, I see what you mean, and I agree that in its current form ITEM_STRUCTURE has no sense to be put and not restricted. Maybe there are other cases where this is still valid (restrict the ENTRY class in its current form I would say that it has no sense either, but maybe CARE_ENTRY

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Beale
On 21/06/2012 11:49, Diego Bosc? wrote: Hi Thomas Ian, I see what you mean, and I agree that in its current form ITEM_STRUCTURE has no sense to be put and not restricted. Maybe there are other cases where this is still valid (restrict the ENTRY class in its current form I would say that it

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Beale
On 21/06/2012 12:08, Thomas Beale wrote: On 21/06/2012 11:49, Diego Bosc? wrote: Hi Thomas Ian, I see what you mean, and I agree that in its current form ITEM_STRUCTURE has no sense to be put and not restricted. Maybe there are other cases where this is still valid (restrict the ENTRY class

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Beale
Let me try and clarify the time aspect of the ontology... the question is not that time doesn't relate to all Entry types. The question is how. In the Clinical Investigator Ontology Sam and I constructed, there are 3 temporal upper level categories * history - i.e. information relating to

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Beale
On 21/06/2012 17:08, Thomas Beale wrote: Now consider the diagnosis archetype (an instance of the 'opinion' aka 'description' type)... it contains the main 'proposition' - i.e. the identified index condition, diabetes or whatever - and a bunch of times / dates / durations / other

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Sam Heard
Hi Anthanasios I think time has shown that this is probably an area of over engineering in openEHR. All archetypes are now ITEM_TREE and could be clusters. If we think of these as providing constraint on an underlying cluster - ITEM_LIST is a cluster of ELEMENTs and ITEM_TABLE sets up a set of

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Athanasios, Just to back up what Sam has said, experience has shown that it is best practice to model every top-level archetype structure as ITEM_TREE to allow for maximum flexibility to develop the model in the future without breaking backward compatibility, and as Sam has said there appears

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Thomas Beale
See openEHR 2.x RM candidates A-3 and A4 here http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/openEHR+2.x+RM+proposals+-+lower+information+model. On 20/06/2012 11:50, Sam Heard wrote: Hi Anthanasios I think time has shown that this is probably an area of over engineering in openEHR. All

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Athanasios Anastasiou
Hello everyone Thank you very much for your responses Sam Ian, they were helpful. In any case the changes you describe do not seem to be reducing the flexibility of the model. This definitely also helped me in clarifying the use of ITEM_TABLE. There is another part to that question though

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Athanasios, a) The very first thing you have to do is to decide on the structure and this is static. The archetyped definition sits within a sub-class of item structure. So if I am creating a new Observation archetype and want to add elements to 'data' I first have to decide which structure to

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Diego Boscá
So you have to select the ITEM_STRUCTURE class but you don't have to select the EVENT class? (most CKM archetypes have now EVENT and not INTERVAL_EVENT or POINT_EVENT) I think it should be allowed/forbidden following only one criteria. 2012/6/20 Ian McNicoll Ian.McNicoll at oceaninformatics.com

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-15 Thread Athanasios Anastasiou
Hello everyone I am sending this email to clarify the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE in relation to other structures (such as HISTORY and EVENT) both from the point of view of EHR semantics as well as the computational view. My problem in one line is that i can't understand if ITEM_STRUCTURE are there