Re: [Gnumed-devel] Imaging as a 'Measurement'

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:28:11AM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> I had been considering to create, inside my org structure,
> 
>       Cardiology Dept, VGH (Org)
> 
>               Echocardiography Division, VGH (Org unit)
>               ECG Division, VGH (Org unit)
>               Electrophysiology Division, VGH (Org unit)
>               Interventional Cardiology, VGH (Org unit)
> 
> and also
> 
>       Radiology Department, VGH (Org)
> 
>               Abdominal Radiography
>               Chest Radiography
>               Interventional Radiology
>               Musculoskeletal Radiography
>               Nuclear Medicine
> 
> but I sit confronted with a duality that -- even though
> the above organizations or org units generate reports, which
> can be imported into the patient's GNUmed document archive
> -- these same orgs provide measurements within their
> reports, for example
>
>       abdominal aortic aneurism
>       - the dimensions thereof
> 
>       aortic valve stenosis
>       - the valve area
>       - the pressure gradient
> 
>       coronary artery disease
>       - coronary artery calcium score
> 
> therefore is it necessary to categorize these subunits as
> 'Laboratories' in order to be able to create 'test types'
> that derive from these org units?

No it is not, contrary to what I may have said before.

Karsten
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