Difference between revisions of "Consensus"

Revision as of 11:12, 30 June 2014

This page is an attempt to document the emerging consensus on metadata requirements for clinical documents which may be emerging from the group discussions - as of 30th June it is not agreed - merely a draft, for discussion at the forthcoming t'con:

• The primary purpose of generating clinical document metadata is to facilitate tailored searching for clinical documents by "users"
• There are multiple possible types of users, but for the purposes of metadata discussions, they are limited to those with an interest in the care of an individual patient (i.e. excluding data mining of populations). Examples include:
  • Primary care clinical staff (medical, nursing, etc.)
  • Secondary care clinical staff (medical, nursing, etc.)
  • Social care staff
  • Patients and their agreed representatives (friends, relatives etc.)
• Searching, can be a multi-stage process, including one or more of the following steps:
  1. Server based filtering of searchable metadata (find me only documents from the last 2 months)
  2. Automated Client based filtering of metadata (after full retrieving metadata) - this may enable filtering based on fields not treated as queryable by the server
  3. Visual scanning of metadata to identify items of interest (possibly in "free text" fields, which are not suitable for automated filtering)
  4. Final filtering based on document content itself (only useful where the document is suitably structured - e.g. CDA, and contains useful filter fields not otherwise represented in the metadata)