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Pre-conference Workshop/Tutorial

1. Clinical Content Governance in Web2.0 environment - Heather Leslie, Sebastian Garde, Ian McNicoll

Abstract. Jurisdictions and organisations increasingly recognise the need for harmonisation and standardisation of clinical content specifications to support interoperability of health information. With the advent of the Web2.0 approach to broad, online community collaboration, it has now become possible to develop inclusive clinical content models, ensure validation of content models by experts as clinically appropriate for use in our electronic health records (EHRs) and avoid traditional pitfalls of domain expertise, geographical and jurisdictional constraints. As a result, we need a new approach to clinical knowledge governance.

The intent of this presentation is to share the experience of the authors in developing a clinical knowledge framework and to demonstrate practical governance of clinical knowledge assets using an online clinical knowledge collaboration and governance tool – from management of a coherent library of clinical content models and related knowledge assets; through transparent and accountable facilitation of expert collaboration; to the generation of published outputs required by implementers.

The presentation will provide practical insight into the issues and complexity of clinical knowledge governance, including development of management policies and quality processes to support each step in the clinical content lifecycle: development; validation & clinical verification; publication; and distribution of a range of clinical knowledge assets.

2. openEHR - from Theory to Implementation -  Ian McNicoll , Rong Chen, Anže Droljc

Abstract. From its inception in 2003, and building on many previous years of academic research and practical experience, openEHR has steadily developed from a research-evidenced theoretical framework to deliver a set of practical technologies, methodologies and applications. These support the broad scope of e-health implementation, from clinical modelling and governance to full-scale, model-driven application development. In this tutorial attendees will be given an overview of the openEHR framework and associated methodologies, followed by practical examples of the ways in which the theoretical foundation flows through to implementation, drawing on real-world experience. The material will reflect the tutors' broad practical experience of openEHR clinical content authoring, software development methodology and model-driven application development, underpinned by a commitment to building national and international interoperability standards.

Panel Discussion

Village of the Future II - Integration and Semantics - Ian McNicoll and Anže Droljc spoke from an openEHR implementation perspective