The openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) is an international, online clinical knowledge resource. It has gathered an active Web 2.0 community of interested and motivated individuals 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.

See the live instance of CKM: http://openehr.org/knowledge

The latest release of CKM:

• is a library of clinical knowledge artefacts - currently openEHR archetypes and templates;
• supports the full life cycle management of openEHR archetypes through a review and publication process;
• provides governance of the knowledge artefacts

In the near future we anticipate a complementary repository for other related artefacts including terminology subsets.

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
• Functional Overview
• Archetype authoring, review and publication overview
• Content publication, terminology binding and language translations
• Archetype checklist
• Frequently Asked Questions
• CKM Releases
• Result of openEHR Community poll - Top 10 archetypes for use in an Emergency

How can you get involved?

[Note: you will need to be a registered user]

• Register yourself - otherwise you can view the archetypes, but not get access to all the good stuff 'under the hood'
• Adopt an archetype
• Contribute to discussion about an archetype - this will feed into a formal review process
• Rate a published archetype

• Volunteer to review the clinical content of archetypes - technical knowledge not required; informatics knowledge an asset; and sound clinical knowledge absolutely essential   
  • Register as a content reviewer  
  • Review archetype content
    • Introduction to Archetypes and Archetype classes
    • Demonstration OBSERVATION archetype

• Support terminology binding
  • Volunteer as a terminology expert to advise on terminology binding within archetypes
• Translate archetypes
  • Volunteer as an archetype translator
  • Translation instructions (for the Ocean Archetype Editor)
• Become an Archetype Editor
  • Volunteer as an editor 
  • Facilitate and moderate archetype reviews
  • Editorial checklist
  • Add an archetype to the repository

Problems, Suggestions, Comments: Please email ckm@oceaninformatics.com if you have any problems, suggestions, comments for this tool or select 'Report bug' or 'Suggest new feature' from CKM's About menu.
 

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