On alerts and medication interaction

Hello,

I was wondering how AOM and arquetypes may help in detecting dangerous situations within the clinical activity.
For example, let’s say a group observations are recorded and the values indicate that there is a dangerous condition, so some alert should be fired.
Another example refers to medication instructions.

if a medication instruction is repeated in a very short period, can we detect it from the archetype definition?
rephrased, can an assertion check to see if another very similar instruction has been created “not so long ago”?

Another problem is that of medication interaction, how would you cover these issues from within openEHR?

thank you

Rodrigo

The answer is that the archetypes are the way information is recognised - we use the id and the path within it - index on the archetypes to provide rapid responses. The decision support software is written in terms of the archetypes and the paths with in them - which can be used directly in queries to return the data. These archetype Ids and paths are the equivalent of {…} in Arden Syntax.

Is this helpful?

Cheers, Sam