Demographic Information Model STABLE

Information model for parties and their relationships: persons, organisations, roles, identity types, contact details, and party relationships. Designed for use alongside or independently of the EHR. PARTY_SELF, PARTY_RELATED, and PARTY_IDENTIFIED provide progressively richer representations of subjects referenced in EHR entries. The model is intentionally generic, allowing it to serve as a standalone demographic service or to be referenced from within EHR content.

Purpose

This document describes the architecture of the openEHR Demographic Information Model. The semantics are drawn from previous work in GEHR, existing models in ISO 13606 and the HL7v3 RIM, and other work done in Australia.

The intended audience includes:

  • Standards bodies producing health informatics standards;

  • Academic groups using openEHR;

  • The open source healthcare community;

  • Solution vendors;

  • Medical informaticians and clinicians interested in health information.

Related Documents

Prerequisite documents for reading this document include:

Other documents describing related models, include:

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