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Re: Differential display


I am not sure we can be certain that the structured data is definitely
repeated or that one or other section is redundant I would tend to go
with Gerard's suggestion of structured / unstructured and leave the
issue of what to display to the consumer.

Ian

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2008/8/18 Gerard Freriks <gfrer@luna.nl>:
> HI,
> Am I wrong to observe that the differential is not Display and 
> Non-Display,
> but Structured and Non-Structured?
> The problem with the suggestions by Sam is that part of the 
> information that
> is received is not visible.
> In order to accept data from a third party I need to see and judge 
> both the
> visible and invisible parts of the Template.
> Gerard
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> temporary
> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 
> 1755
>
>
>
>
> On 18, Aug, 2008, at 7:06 , Sam Heard wrote:
>
> Dear All (cross post)
>
> We are working in an environment where many applications and CDA 
> messages
> have information that is displayed as text and repeated information in
> structured form. This also arises in applications which have a 
> formatted
> document plus structured information (typically in primary care).
>
> I am proposing that we have a section archetype to manage this. The
> archetype display script would not display any information about the 
> section
> itself (it would be invisible) and would display the first subsection 
> but
> not the second. The section archetype would be:
>
> Differential display
>
> Display
>
> Entries here will display
>
> Non-display
>
> Entries here will not display
>
> This does mimic the CDA approach but does have the added benefit that 
> the
> displayed information can be structured as well (a requirement from 
> our
> customers who want to mix the textural content and structured 
> medication
> orders (ie not duplicate these in the textural display).
>
> If this archetype arrived somewhere where it was not known the generic
> display script would show the non-display information (twice). This 
> would be
> unlikely to cause errors especially as there would be a heading 
> Non-display.
>
> So that is the approach that we have considered. There is an 
> alternative -
> just have a non-display section. This has the advantage that it could 
> be
> added when required on an adhoc basis. The major problem that I can 
> see is
> that it would not be clear which part of the record held the 
> information
> that was redundant (ie where it was being displayed).
>
> I would be interested in people's views of this approach to the 
> redundant
> structured data problem that arises from CDA and word processor style 
> record
> applications.
>
> Cheers, Sam
>
>
> Cheers, Sam
>
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