Re: [Gnumed-devel] Fwd: GNUmed

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
>
> Betreff: GNUmed
> Datum: Samstag 18 April 2009
> Von: Kevin M Coonan MD <address@hidden>
> An: address@hidden
>
> I am a physician and medical informaticist.  I am currently one of the HL7
> Patient care co-chairs, and am the creator of opencdr.org, which I am
> beginning
> to start work on.
>
> OpenCDR will be a data warehouse system which will use Detailed Clinical
> Models--a joint effort of HL7 and OpenEHR to provide implementation
> agnostic patterns of expression of clinical content.  The role of OpenCDR
> is to provide an EHR neutral platform for long term storage of clinical
> data in a manner suitable for multiple secondary uses, such as for clinical
> research.
>
> I would like to invite your participation in the detailed clinical models
> process.  This would provide robust data element definitions of arbitrary
> complexity using standard terminologies.  Initially, this will be based
> upon SNOMED-CT, but we are discussing the feasibility of using other
> reference terminologies in the future.
>
> In addition, I would like to know if there is documentation about GNU Meds
> information model.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Coonan, MD
>


I thought that I spoke English, having done so for over 50 years, and I have 
great difficulty finding meaning in what is written there.