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Maybe I'm being naive, but the whole problem of how to model medical data isn't to design your system to do fine grained scheme of every possible problem, I'd t
by caycep 12y ago
Maybe I'm being naive, but the whole problem of how to model medical data isn't to design your system to do fine grained scheme of every possible problem, I'd think it may be better to find the minimum amount of schema that can define things - i.e. a few tags describing whether it's a lab value, order, medication, etc, and then a plaintext data store. Interpretation could then be passed onto specific clients based on the tags?
- roma1n 12y agoI guess there is something to this, as right now all EHR information ends up processed by human beings in the end (?) so there is no need for an overly complicated "type system". Still, a schema for prescription drugs would bring automated interactions detection, for instance.