Re: [Gnumed-devel] Machine readable models at openEHR

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:42:30AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote:

> My understanding is that openEHR Archetypes will act as intelligent,
> self-validating storage "objects", and thus an openEHR storage engine
> will be a lot like an object database.
Yes, and hopefully one that does not simply store blobified
objects that can only be unmarshalled by the original
language.

> I agree, but until there is an engine to play with, it is hard to tell
> how many of the theoretical advantages of the openEHR approach will
> carry over to the real world whne used in real information systems.
That's pretty much exactly why I haven't invested any
significant amount of time into exploring OpenEHR further.

Karsten
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