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Clinical Program Priorities

Clinical Program Priorities

Owned by Thomas Beale
Last updated: 28-Feb-2023
2 min read

The following areas have been identified as priorities for the openEHR Clinical Program. The order of importance determined later by CPB, to create the roadmap.

Archetype Development

  • accelerate rate of review of existing v0 international archetypes

  • democratise & scale modelling effort, and organise, probably via Work Groups;

    • reduce editorial and other bottle-necks slowing down archetype production

    • better outreach:

      • Calling for more clinical modellers and health professionals to join the community during the discussions, trying to cover most of the specialties

      • try to reduce archetype silos forming in vendors - try to facilitate re-use as much as possible

    • strategies to obtain funding and resource-in-kind

    • use Affiliates to help scale clinical requirements gathering, modelling and dissemination

  • investigate other CKMs / vendor archetype silos for merge, reuse etc

Governance

  • review intellectual property (IP) safety/risk of archetypes, particularly scores, scales, terminology bindings

  • good integration with other openEHR Programs (Specification, Software, and Education) to work together and discuss issues in periodic meetings.

  • Priority integration with Educational program to capacitate more people to work with openEHR standards, help create modelling training materials etc

  • Creation of working groups (WGs) based on individual's expertise and projects e.g. cardiology, pediatrics, PROMS, scores, ...

  • more transparent project definition and management

  • Establishment of a governance team to maintain CKM quality

Technology

  • migrate CKM to ADL2

  • migrate modelling eco-system - human and tools - to ADL2, to enable use of proper specialisation, ADL2 templates with overlays, translations, and many other ADL2 improvements.

    • For some time, ADL1.4 OPTs will need to be supported for runtime systems;

    • Migration can be done progressively, with support for ADL2 <=> ADL1.4 inter-conversion, already supported by many tools.

  • better support for (partly) generating 'implementation guides', including dependency maps or similar (see Infrastructure & Tooling)

Methodology

  • review current archetype modelling style guideline (current version)

  • review all Clinical content on the openEHR wiki, particularly to do with archetype lifecycle, using CKM, etc.

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