A problem the community has been looking at in openEHR for some time is how to deal clearly with order-related meta-data (typically: requestor and receiver ids of various sorts). The topic of ‘orderables’ has been mentioned in some recent discussions in CIMI, and as a result, some model changes proposed. One is the addition of an ‘ENTRY_GROUP’ class. A similar idea may be useful in openEHR. The problems it could address include the following:
- provide a clear place to put order-related information
- better match for Panel/Analytes in Lab data
- provide a container structure that matches Order Sets
See this page with some modelling ideas on this topic.
- thomas