Re: [Gnumed-devel] progress note popups

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:18:29PM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:

> if consultation events had subtypes, 
> then change current medication , and issue script, should
> be  separate consultation events, which could be record in the EMR.
> 
> actually , looking at the book again, change-current-medication, and 
> issue-script
> would be  instances of an action type class which an action attribute is an
> instance of, since actually subtypes of action
> class would be proposed action, abandoned action, implemented action, 
> completed
> action, implemented-but-abandoned action.  Probably inheritance is for the 
> later
> heirarchy, because there might be additional attributes in the subclasses e.g.
> when abandoned, when implemented, when completed. 
> 
> The outcomes of an action are observations (a subtype of observation, that
> has a link to a precedent action), according to the book.

All this sounds like what OpenEHR does. We don't, however, have
a metamodel, that is to mean we *implement* actions instead of
*modelling* them (and subsequently executing the model).

Karsten
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