Context Conduction

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Context Conduction

• Now What?

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Context Conduction

• Overview
• A Simple Use Case (and why it didnt work)
• Requirements
• Next Steps

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Context Conduction

• Humans often rely on context when interpreting
  information. For example, when reading a report
  taken from a folder containing a patient's
  medical record, the reader will infer that the
  report deals with the patient, even if there is
  no direct reference to the patient on the form.

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RIM Context Conduction
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ActRelationship.contextControlCode

• The manner in which which this ActRelationship
  contributes to the context of the current Act,
  and whether it may be propagated to descendent
  Acts whose association allows such propagation.

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Context Flows Downstream(or not)
Act
Act
Act
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AR Context Control

• contextConductionInd
• True or false that associations from parent act
  are conducted across the ActRelationship
• contextControlCode
• NonPropagating (not in conducted context)
• AN additive, non-propagating
• ON overriding, non-propagating
• Propagating (in conducted context)
• AP additive, propagating
• OP overriding, propagating

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Controlling Context

• Participation included in conducted context
• contextControlCode is Propagating
• AP additive, propagating
• OP overriding, propagating
• Participation excluded from conducted context
• contextControlCode is NonPropagating
• AN additive, non-propagating
• ON overriding, non-propagating

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Simple Use Case
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Simple Use Case

• Goal
• The person transported to/from the encounter
  location is the patient of the encounter
• Effect
• No matter who was actually transported, override
  the subject with the patient of the encounter

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Requirements?
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Next Steps