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CIMI – time for clinician collaboration?
How can CIMI ‘standard’ clinical models be created? In CIMI, we mostly seem to assume two pathways: de novo authoring, e.g. with an archetype tool that consumes the CIMI RM accession and conversion of external models, e.g. CEMs, openEHR, 13606, … Continue reading
ADL/AOM 1.5 (major) progress update
I have been working for some years on the side on the long overdue Archetype Definition Language (ADL) 1.5 and Archetype Object Model (AOM) 1.5 specifications (dev page). I have made some major progress just recently, of the ‘nice’ kind, … Continue reading
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Tagged ADL, AOM, archetype, openEHR, standards
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OMG e-health platform summit Berlin 2013
I attended the OMG e-health summit this week, devised and facilitated by Ken Rubin (HP health vertical). The session drew participants from various countries and programmes, including Finland, Germany, UK NHS, Australia, Italy, US and others.
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The openEHR platform live in Norway
I had the pleasure of being invited to the annual DIPS Forum Tromsø, Norway 2-5 June 2013, to present on openEHR. DIPS is the main Norwegian hospital information system supplier, and the DIPS forum is its annual user/vendor meet-up. (Presentation – YouTube; … Continue reading
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Identifying complex knowledge artefacts
Based on a lot of experience, thinking and gnashing of teeth of colleagues Ian McNicoll, Heather Leslie, Sebastian Garde who work on the Ocean Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) product, as well as many others using archetypes and archetype tools more … Continue reading
DCMs & archetypes – why we need 3 layers
This post is inspired by a slightly out-of-control discussion among people in the CIMI group. It’s a good discussion. The latest question that has come up is whether a DCM (Detailed Clinical Model) is a ‘model of use’ (i.e. some … Continue reading
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Tagged archetype, DCM, e-health, hl7 rim, openEHR, snomed ct
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Models from Intermountain Health – pioneering lessons
I am back this week from a week in Salt Lake City, visiting Dr Stan Huff’s group at Intermountain Health, a globally recognised centre of excellence for clinical computing. I should have been 10 years ago, but better late than … Continue reading
Ontologies in health: ready for prime time? IAO versus openEHR
A lot of ontology work has been going on for some years that comes loosely under the BFO and OBO activities, which stand to improve how computing in health is done. BFO is the Basic Formal Ontology, and OBO is … Continue reading
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Tagged archetype, DCM, e-health, IHTSDO, ontologies, openEHR
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The power of the openEHR archetype formalism – visualised
I made a new beta release of the ADL Workbench today, a tool whose core is a parser and 3-pass validator for archetypes written in the openEHR Archetype Definition Language. Today’s release includes visualisation that really shows how archetypes form … Continue reading
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CIMI group goes with openEHR archetypes & UML profile
The Clinical Information Modelling Initiative (CIMI) group led by Dr Stan Huff (Intermountain Health, Utah) met here in London 29 Nov – 1 Dec to make a final decision on formalism, from the two remaining – openEHR archetypes and various … Continue reading