The Health Information Models space is for discussions about formalised models of health domain content. In the openEHR Framework there are a number of innovations that make it relatively straightforward to specify and share clinical content. The foundations are the clinical models, consisting of archetypes and templates. These models require terminology and finally the models need to support automated clinical process, offering the clinician users decision support and suggesting quality care options in the form of computerised clinical pathways.
Clinical Models
The openEHR openEHR community is beginning to formally evaluate now formally reviewing a set of archetypes for clinical use in an international setting. This will soon be This is available via a web-based controlled authoring environment. In the meantime our discussions are The evaluation is 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).
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Some key discussions about Specific content modelsare 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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