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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:
- The openEHR approach
- An archetype or a template?
- openEHR Clinical Models Project
- Clinical models project - UK
- First paper on Templates and Archetypes by Heard et al (2003)
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