COSMOS documentation

2006-07-06T13:43:00-05:00

For those of you who are fans of Martin Fowler’s Analysis Patterns tome of wisdom, and who are curious about the COSMOS clinical process model project that inspired much of that book, you may be interested in reading the documents linked below.

When Charles and I went to RailsConf this year to speak about the success we’ve been having building a comprehensive research-friendly health record, we were approached by Adam Cavan from the audience who was interested in our project. He asked how much of the COSMOS documentation we’d read before embarking upon our project. We were sad to say that we’d never been able to actually acquire a copy of the documents, as no one seemed to have kept them around, nor were they to be found online any more.

“Oh,” said Adam, “I’ve got a copy—would you like to see them?” Would we ever. And he was as good as his word. Thanks to his kindness we’re also making those documents, with all their amazing insights, available here. By the way, you can reach Adam here: acavan (at) suika (dot) com.

Note we don’t pretend to own these documents, but given that they were at one time available on the web we hope our posting will be looked upon kindly as a service to the software and medical care communities.

Without further verbage, here are .doc and .pdf versions of the documents we received:

DOC	PDF
The Clinical View of the Common Basic Specification (CCPM2 Part 1 – “Clean”)	The Clinical View of the Common Basic Specification (CCPM2 Part 1 – “Clean”)
The Clinical View of the Common Basic Specification (CCPM2 Part 1)	The Clinical View of the Common Basic Specification (CCPM2 Part 1)
The Activity Diagram (CCPM2 Part 2 – “Clean”)	The Activity Diagram (CCPM2 Part 2 – “Clean”)
The Activity Diagram (CCPM2 Part 2)	The Activity Diagram (CCPM2 Part 2)
Glossary of Concept Names (CCPM2 Part 3 – “Clean”)	Glossary of Concept Names (CCPM2 Part 3 – “Clean”)
Glossary of Concept Names (CCPM2 Part 3)	Glossary of Concept Names (CCPM2 Part 3)

UPDATE: Added better versions of the “clean” PDFs—also added attribution to our previously pseudo-anonymous friend who found these documents. Tahnks Adam!

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COSMOS documentation