On 22 May 2012, at 10:05, Aaron Brown wrote: > The schema wasn't designed with that use case in mind -- it's focused on marking up public information on the web for search use cases, not for coding or exchange of clinical data. It might be extensible to a version of that use case, if complemented with requirements for use of well-defined coding systems tied to external enumerations (like ICD or Snomed, RxNorm, etc). But it'd probably be better to use a purpose-built representation for clinical data transfer, like HL7 CDA / CCD or CCR, coupled with a patient-readable form of the discharge notes; standards like these offer greater precision in the specification of clinical data. It would be useful to add this design constraint to the introduction (at the moment it says "The scope of this schema is broad…") And perhaps define MedicalEntity as disjoint from Person ;-) Cheers... Renato Iannella Semantic Identity http://semanticidentity.com Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206
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