A combination of reference sets and subsumption testing can be used to enable a simple, yet sophisticated, analytics feature. For example, you may want to include all of the descendants of reference set members in a particular analysis.

The diagram below illustrate the difference of categorizing patients using two approaches:

  1. A subset of components. 
  2. A subset of components and subsumption testing.   


Categorizing patients using a simple reference set and subsumption testing