The openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) is an international, online clinical knowledge resource. It has gathered an active community of interested and motivated individuals from around the world focused on furthering an open and international approach to clinical informatics - an application- and message-independent lingua franca for sharing health information between individuals, clinicians and organisations; between applications, and across regional and national borders. All contributions to CKM is on a voluntary basis, and all CKM content is open source and freely available under a Creative Commons licence.
- CKM is a library of clinical knowledge artefacts - currently predominantly openEHR archetypes and templates;
- CKM supports the full life cycle management of openEHR archetypes and templates through a review and publication process;
- CKM provides governance of the knowledge artefacts.
The Clinical Knowledge Manager provides the opportunity and means for users interested in modelling clinical content to become participate in the creation and/or enhancement of an international set of archetypes, and these in turn have the potential to provide the foundation for interoperable Electronic Health Records.
- Overview
- CKM Governance Environment
- Functional Overview
- How to get involved
- Archetype authoring, review and publication overview
- Content publication, terminology binding and language translations
- Archetype checklist
- Frequently Asked Questions
- CKM Releases
- Glossary of terms used in CKM
- CKM Terms of Use
- CKM Privacy Policy
- Significant Product Releases
Please take a look - CKM Video Guides: Clinical Knowledge Manager Overview and Registering on CKM
CKM Instances
In addition to the international Clinical Knowledge Manager of the openEHR foundation, there are several other CKM instances hosted around the world:
CKM Name | Description |
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openEHR CKM | Hosted by the openEHR Foundation, this is the 'go to' resource CKM for the international openEHR community |
Australian CKM | Hosted and managed by the Australian Digital Health Agency |
UK Clinical Models / Apperta CKM - | A shared CKM for a variety of UK-based projects and organisations under the auspices of the Apperta Foundation |
Norwegian CKM - | Hosted and managed by the Norwegian national eHealth program |
Slovenian CKM | Hosted and managed by the Ministry of Health in Slovenia |
Alberta CKM - | Hosted and managed by Alberta Health Services in Canada |
HSCIC CKM | Hosted and managed by the UK Health and Social Care Information Centre |
CENTERMS CKM | Hosted and managed by the Centro Nacional de Terminologias em Saúde, Brazil |
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Problems, Suggestions, Comments
- Please email ckm@oceaninformatics.com OR select 'Report bug' or 'Suggest new feature' from the CKM Help menu.