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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 the openEHR Clinical Models Program. Some key discussions about specific content models are available.
Background
Models of clinical information exist in every computer system that is used in health care. While doctors, nurses and other health professionals share many clinical concepts and can communicate very effectively about these concepts, computers have not had a standard means of representing clinical information. openEHR offers this capability and in doing so provides a platform for health care computing. If we do not have such a platform then the benefits of computing in health care will be very slow coming and require absolutely massive investment. Resources that might be useful are:
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When modelling archetypes and templates, there are some common ways value sets and terminologies are used in practice. This document is intended to give an overview of them:
Clinical Knowledge Governance
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