The Patient Care Technical Committee recognizes that this document contains a great deal of information for computer systems that are currently under development. As these tables are defined and clarified, they will be included in this document for distribution.
Applications can have differing orientations for representing problem and goal hierarchies.
To accommodate these different orientations, the Problem message allow representation of goals that are functionally dependent upon a problem, and the Goal message allow representation of problems that are functionally dependent on a goal. We recognize that institutions will decide on one or the other of the methodologies based on practice preferences.