[Gnumed-devel] Measurements - how much HL7 to make accessible?

[Busser, Jim]

was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Some issues 

On 2013-07-14, at 2:24 PM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

>> is to append, into the cell (after the indicator) an @ symbol.
> 
> GNUmed appends an "...".

Pathologists who feel some responsibility for results delivery have contrasted 
for me that

(1) in the case of paper (or PDF) reports issued by the path lab, the 
pathologists can be confident about the adequacy of the information adequacy of 
what is displayed in the reports, whereas

(2) in the case of results-as-encoded-messages, they have no idea what the 
clinical data will look like, once it is in an EMR.

Some of them seek reassurance from clinicians who are using EMRs whether in fact

- "all" (?) of the test information is getting into the EMR and
- "all" (?) of the information is displayed to the clinician acknowledging 
(signing) the result

In the rest of this thread I will take the HL7 segments one at a time …

-- Jim