| 15 | 15 | Because the architecture is highly generic, and particularly due to being archetype-driven, it satisfies many requirements outside the original concept of the "clinical EHR". For example, the same reference architecture can be used for veterinary health or even "care" of public infrastructure or listed buildings. This is due to the fact that the reference model embodies only concepts relating to "service and administrative events relating to a subject of care"; it is in archetypes and templates that specifics of the kinds of care events and subjects of care are defined. In another dimension, although one of the requirements for the openEHR EHR was a "patient-centric, longitudinal, shared care EHR", it is not limited to this, and can be used in purely episodic, specialist situations, e.g. as a radiology department record system. Requirements for various flavours of "health care record" can be categorised according to the two dimensions, scope, and kind of subject, as shown in FIGURE 2. |
