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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:
Archetypes
Archetypes are the fundamental shareable specifications of clinical information we need to provide quality health care, and have been formally accepted as a European standard in 2007 (CEN 13606 Part II)and now being considered by ISO. Each archetype represents a whole, discrete specification which is as inclusive as possible, always in terms of the openEHR reference model. The reference model itself guarantees that the key attributes for information in health records (such as who, when and where) are already taken care of and do not need to be addressed in each archetype. Further, the reference model has 5 different entry classes which provide the attributes and structures required for all the different sorts of information stored in a health record. Helpful resources include:
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