Tag Archives: archetype

openEHR turns 20 today

Posted on 13/03/2023 by wolandscat

openEHR was officially created on 13 March 2003, 20 years ago today. Prof David Ingram thought of the name, and he and a small band of optimists – Dr Sam Heard, Dr Dipak Kalra, David Lloyd and myself – launched … Continue reading →

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A Lingua Franca for e-health takes shape with GraphiteHealth

Posted on 15/05/2022 by wolandscat

Colleagues in e-health often say to me: why don’t you make openEHR easier to map to <insert popular interop standard> (used to be HL7v3, then HL7 CDA, now, HL7 FHIR… DSTU2/3/4/5?). To which I usually reply: if you are implying … Continue reading →

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openEHR technical basics for HL7 and FHIR users

Posted on 10/04/2016 by wolandscat

Recent discussions on the FHIR chat forum with various HL7 people around the topic of how openEHR and other architectural frameworks (e.g. VA FHIM, CDISC) could work with FHIR led to a realisation that some people in HL7 at least … Continue reading →

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Semantic scalability – the core challenge in e-health?

Posted on 15/12/2014 by wolandscat

A few months ago I posted on what makes a standard or set of standards in e-health investible. The headline requirements I can summarise as follows: platform-based: the standards must work together in a single coherent technical ecosystem, based on … Continue reading →

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Health interoperability standards are a pre-platform concept. Discuss.

Posted on 02/10/2014 by wolandscat

There is a growing recognition that we need an open platform concept to solve e-health interoperability and reuse problems. Some evidence of this I noted in my recent post ‘What is an open platform’, including various US-based cross vendor platform … Continue reading →

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openEHR 2014 Roadmap Meeting, Sep 16/17, Oslo

Posted on 22/09/2014 by wolandscat

Last week saw the first major face-to-face international openEHR community meeting, which took place in Lilletstrom, near Oslo, at premises kindly organised by DIPS asa, openEHR Industry Partner and major EHR supplier in Norway.

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Why clinical models are essential to big data

Posted on 11/03/2014 by wolandscat

I attended HIMSS 2014 in the mammoth convention centre in Orlando 10 days ago, and went to a session on ‘Clinical Decision Support – is progress being made?’. Despite this being the dead Thursday of HIMSS, around 50 people showed … Continue reading →

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Archetype unification proposal – node identifiers

Posted on 01/01/2014 by wolandscat

    happy new year and best wishes for 2014. I hope your new year’s day is a bright one (unless you live in the UK, in which case it’s a lost cause here today 😉 I have been working … Continue reading →

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CIMI – time for clinician collaboration?

Posted on 08/11/2013 by wolandscat

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 →

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ADL/AOM 1.5 (major) progress update

Posted on 21/08/2013 by wolandscat

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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