Sam,
I do not know the openehr rm well so I spend some time
this week to read the documentation.
I would like to get involved in the detailed debate
about order entry. From my point of view there are two
different requirements/types for an order entry
instruction in general:
1. This is the ususal order entry process which is
concerned with process execution (laboratory order
entry). You send an order and get a result.
2. This is the scheduling process of order entry. This
process is more patient centered. You send an order
and you get an appointment (e.g. radiololgy
department).
Both concepts are quite general, so I am not sure if
there have to exist a separate instruction for each of
them.
What I am concerned with is the clinical information
which should go along/ or should be available with an
order of type 2. In the past months I tried to model
this information for specific orders (CT, Left heart
catheterization) with the aim to give the clincian
performing the investigation the information already
gathered by the ordering physician. (The main purpose
of this modeling was to give the clinican executing
the order the possibility to verify the indication of
the requested investigation and to make the report
more comprehensible and contextual to the order... )
I am not sure how such a model could be integrated in
the openEHR model and at what level this could happen.
I would be glad to hear from you why I keep on reading
the documentation..
Regards
Dirk