| 84 | 87 | Not at all. Archetypes are designed to provide systematic interface with terminologies. They are, in themselves, terminology-neutral, because there is no (and probably will never be) single terminology or ontology which describes the whole of medicine in the myriad points of view needed in clinical information systems. For a discussion of the problems with terminology, see the ADL specification (section: The Problem of Terminology). ADL is designed to have bindings to terminologies, and any given archetype can include bindings to more than one. A binding is the set of mappings from archetype local term and constraint codes to terminology codes and query expressions respectively. See this archetype for an example (scroll to the ontology section). |
