RE: A problem-oriented medical record OWL ontology

 

 

Hi Chimezie, 
I have just briefly looked through the introduction to your Problem Oriented
Medical Record ontology and I find it very interesting. In the same way as HL7
RIM Acts has a "ontological failings" in mixing up the "concept of the action of
recording clinical information and the phenomena being described by such
recordings", CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) fundamental
Observations has a similar problem.

[VK] This reminds me of a discussion I had with Dan Russler and similar to the
above sentiment, the design choices seem to be between one of the following:

1.   Modeling the action of recording a clinical information; or ordering a
drug; or making a diagnosis, ...

2.   Modeling the information required for performing the action; and the
information as a result of the outcome of the action...

The argument appears to be that the use case in requires metrics such as cost
and efficiency of hospital operations. etc. That said, one still needs to
differentiate the two and chances are
you may want to model (2) as opposed to (1)

It will be great if Kerstin can point us to the "use cases" and metrics in the
Pharma context which would drive the modeling efforts.

Cheers,

     ---Vipul