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The openEHR community is beginning to formally evaluate a set of archetypes for clinical use in an international setting. This will soon be available via a web-based controlled authoring environment. In the meantime our discussions are proceeding under the guidance of Dr Heather Leslie and the Archetype Editorial Group. We are proceeding with an 'archetype a day' for rapid review (some are taking a little longer).
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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