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The openEHR community is now formally reviewing a set of archetypes for clinical use in an international setting. This is available via a web-based controlled authoring environment. The evaluation is proceeding under the guidance of Dr Heather Leslie and the Archetype Editorial Groupthe openEHR Clinical Models Program. Some key discussions about specific content models are available.
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- The openEHR approach
- An archetype or a template?
- openEHR Clinical Models Project
- Clinical models project - UK
- Program
- First paper on Templates and Archetypes by Heard et al (2003)
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openEHR archetypes offer great advantage over HL7 templates as complex data can be specified in a manner that is understandable to health professionals and IT staff. It is a very efficient way to manage the specification of information we want to share between health care systems.
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Terminology is as old as computers in health care. Initially used to minimise disk space, the use of terminologies has grown to classify health care offered and more recently, through use of SNOMED -CT (IHTSDO) to CT to support automated clinical process. Archetypes, and openEHR for that matter, are designed to work with terminology.
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Terminologies used in Healthcare include ICD-1011 (and its predecessor predecessors ICD-10 and ICD-9), SNOMED - CT, LOINC and many others.
Most terminologies use codes as identifiers or references to each individual term or concept. Codes and identifiers are generally to aid processing by computer rather than humans. They come at a price.
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