Pablo Pazos Gutiérreza, Koray Atalagb, Luis Marco-Ruizc, Erik Sundvalld,e, Sérgio Miranda Freiref
a openEHR en Español, Asociación Chilena de Informática en Salud, CaboLabs
bUniversity ofAuckland and openEHRNew Zealandc PLEASE ADD YOUR AFFILIATION HEREThe University of Auckland, New Zealand
c Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway
dLinköping University, Sweden eRegion Östergötland, Sweden
fState University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract
Databases for Clinical Information Systems are difficult to design and implement, especially when the design involves the implementation of a formal specification or standard. The openEHR specifications offer a very expressive and generic model for clinical data structures, allowing semantic interoperability and compatibility with other standards like HL7 CDA, FHIR, and ASTM CCR. But openEHR is not only for data modeling, it specifies an EHR Computational Platform designed to create highly modifiable future-proof EHR systems, and to support long term economically viable projects, with a knowledge-oriented approach that is independent from specific technologies. Software Developers find a great complexity in designing openEHR compliant databases since the specifications do not include any guidelines in that area. The authors of this tutorial are developers that have overcome these complexities. This tutorial will expose different requirements, design principles, technologies and techniques. The tutorial will also explain the main challenges of implementing an openEHR-based Clinical Database with examples and lessons learned to help designers and developers to overcome those challenges.
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Clinical Informatics Consultant at CaboLabs Medical Informatics and Standards, Lecturer at Chilean Association of Healthcare Informatics (ACHISA), Coordinator at the openEHR-ES community, Qualified member of the openEHR Foundation - Localization Programme Member for LatAm.
Luis Marco-Ruiz, M.Sc.; Norwegian Center for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø; Qualified member of the openEHR Foundation; Tromsø, Norway
Koray Atalag, MD, PhD, FACHI: Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics at Auckland Bioengineering Institute and National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland, New Zealand; openEHR Localisation Programme Leader
Erik Sundvall, MSc, PhD - Researcher, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University and information architect in Region Östergötland, Sweden. Erik coordinates the openEHR software program:
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http://openehr.org/programs/software/
Sergio Miranda Freire, DSc, Associate Professor, Departament of Health Information Technology Education, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sergio and Erik have research interests in scalability and storage solutions for archetype-based EHR systems and have been testing and evaluating different noSQL storage and query approaches for openEHR data.
References
[1] Who is using openEHR? http://www.openehr.org/who_is_using_openehr/healthcare_providers_and_authorities
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