Pablo Pazos Gutiérreza, Koray Atalagb, Luis Marco-Ruizc
a openEHR en Español, Asociación Chilena de Informática en Salud, CaboLabs
bUniversity ofAuckland and openEHRNew Zealand
c PLEASE ADD YOUR AFFILIATION HERE Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of Northern Norway
Abstract
Databases for Clinical Information Systems are difficult to design and implement, especially when the design involves the implementation of a formal specification or standard. The openEHR specifications offer a very expressive and generic model for clinical data structures, allowing semantic interoperability and compatibility with other standards like HL7 CDA, FHIR, and ASTM CCR. But openEHR is not only for data modeling, it specifies an EHR Computational Platform designed to create highly modifiable future-proof EHR systems, and to support long term economically viable projects, with a knowledge-oriented approach that is independent from specific technologies. Software Developers find a great complexity in designing openEHR compliant databases since the specifications do not include any guidelines in that area. The authors of this tutorial are developers that have overcome these complexities. This tutorial will expose different requirements, design principles, technologies and techniques. The tutorial will also explain the main challenges of implementing an openEHR-based Clinical Database with examples and lessons learned to help designers and developers to overcome those challenges.
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