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openEHR process model | We model health care delivery as two kinds of process: a clinical process, corresponding to the interaction between a 'clinical investigator system' and a 'patient system', situated within a business process, which is owned by an 'administrative context'. The clinical process constitutes a sub-process of the business process, i.e. it is the main mechanism for the business process to achieve its goal, which is to satisfy a demand for care on the part of the patient. The administrative context corresponds to the health system as a whole, rather than a single enterprise, since from the patient care point of view, the mobilisation of care delivery is carried out by a network of provider organisations. The model can be illustrated in two equivalent ways, as shown in Figure 3. more.... |
openEHR Entry process | The terms 'observation', 'evaluation' etc defined above are not themselves the same as information types, since they refer to a variety of phenomena within the process: information from observations, the activity of evaluation, acts of intervention, and goal statements. To be more precise, we are mainly interested in information created by the investigator system, since this notional agent encompasses any person or device who/which performs any healthcare related task, including the patient herself. The investigator system is therefore the creator of all clinical information in the health record, including patient-entered data. A small amount of administrative information may also end up in the EHR, generally created by non-clinical actors in the organisational context.
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openEHR Entry ontology | The Clinical Investigator Record (CIR) ontology: |
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In the openEHR approach, most description of the contents of recorded health information is left to archetypes (openEHR FAQ). An archetype can be thought of as a model of some clinical content (e.g. what is recorded in a urinalysis, or an ante-natal visit), expressed in a constraint formalism known as ADL (which has some similarities to OWL). Over 200 archetypes have been defined during NHS projects, Australian GP projects, and openEHR activities (openEHR archetypes page). To go straight to the point, an ontological way of looking at the archetypes that exist is the mindmap view. The structure of each archetype can be viewed by clicking on a node in this view. Another way to view archetypes is with the ADL workbench tool, and with various archetype editors. Example archetypes: Microbial lab observations; Adverse reaction; Examination of named body part.
There are at least two ontological questions with respect to archetypes:
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