add intent - Therapeutic, Diagnostic, ...

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Add intent, perhaps as a child of Realizable Entity, with additional subClasses:

    intent (An anticipated outcome that is the purpose for actions taken, thus guiding the action.)
            (http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Intent)
        Therapeutic intent
            Curative intent
            Palliative intent
        Diagnostic intent
        Preventive intent

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sivaram....@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2010 at 10:33

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Perhaps we also need 'Prognostic intent' on this list?  It would be good to be 
able to link each intent to its corresponding process (therapy, diagnostic 
process, prevention process).  Can we leverage any of the OBI planned process 
or plan specification content here (establishing how intent relates to these)?  

In what do these intents inhere? It seems to me like these are related to 
'ways' of doing something...so, w/o dependent occurents, we may have to subtype 
processes, P > Therapeutic P, Diagnostic P, Preventative P"

Thoughts?

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 5 May 2011 at 2:34

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It looks like obi:IAO_0000005 objective specification may work for diagnostic 
process (and prognostic process), where the process endpoints are well defined:

objective specification = a directive information entity that describes an 
intended process endpoint. When part of a plan specification the concretization 
is realized in a planned process in which the bearer tries to effect the world 
so that the process endpoint is achieved.

So would be good to have 'diganostic objective specification'. But not sure 
what to do about therapeutic or preventative...since these seem to be 
open-ended processes...maybe OBI's 'material maintenance objective spec', but 
that would be a stretch.

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 5 May 2011 at 2:48

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My first reaction is that "prognostic intent" is not something we talk much 
about clinically, and indeed a Google search on "prognostic intent" returns 32 
hits.

My first thought is that intents inhere in people (and possibly other 
higher-level organisms).  But we write them down (but that's true of a lot of 
things) and we build things with the intent that they be used certain ways 
(i.e., we create furosemide tablets with the therapeutic intent of treating 
heart failure).

I am not sure what you are saying about processes and specfications.  Why do we 
need "diagnostic objective specification"

Original comment by hoga...@gmail.com on 5 May 2011 at 7:06