RE: Clinical Observations Interoperability, topics to discuss

Bo,

Thanks for the feedback!
In general, I believe that we share the same objectives at a "conceptual"
level, though there might be some differences related to approach and
incremental
steps. 

I will definitely put these as questions to be discussed in the brainstorming
session.
Let me try to understand them a little better.

> - Our understanding is that the objective for the "Clinical 
> Observations Interoperability" group is to come up with a 
> proposal how to facilitate secondary use of clinical 
> observations (i.e. the data) across clinical practice and 
> clinical trials. Our use case details one specific example.
> We have tried to explain our view in the slid set at the wiki.
> Does everybody agree about the objective?

Absolutely. This is clearly the high level objective.
Towards this end, we are focusing on one use case: Patient Recruitment using
Clinical Trials.
This is by no means meant to exclude others, but I guess we need to start
somewhere. But I am sure
we can consider other use cases as well as we move forward.

> - What we need is a solution that is robust over time; our 
> personal experience is that mapping between items on 
> different levels will not be sustainable.
> At the TC Alan described how robust "concepts", e.g. parts of 
>  existing concept system (terminologies), could be "promoted 
> / established" to a domain level (ontology).  
> We propose a discussion around if this approach can be used 
> to establish domain models for areas of clinical observations? 

This is exactly the approach to create "domain models" and mappings which are
sustainable.
The only difference in that this so could approach should some how tie in to
existing industry standards
and if not we should have convincing reasons for the same.

So, I would consider this as dual objectives which could go hand in hand.

> - If yes on previous question, we propose to use this 
> approach when developing the use case. Is that doable?
> If not, what solution is available that meet our requirement? 

I think the approach we are suggesting is to take individual examples such as
blood pressure and work
our way to the objective you described. It will be valuable for us to ground our
objective in real world
examples and industry standards and I think you are agreeable to that.

Cheers,

---Vipul


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Received on Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:58:56 UTC