Mark Gibson wrote: > Tim, > > By way of introduction my company Extensia arose as a spin-off out of a > Health informatics program at the DSTC CRC where work has been > undertaken with Ocean Informatics and others under DoHA and GPCG > sponsorship to scope, specify and enhance artifacts that became a > HealthConnect trial and through technology collaborations fed concepts > and techniques into the OpenEHR model during the startup phases of > OpenEHR. DSTC and Ocean collaborated to architect models and solutions > in recent years prior to each exploring separate commercial paths. > > During the last 2 years Extensia has developed a robust OpenEHR records > server based on the OpenEHR model and archetype aware tools with a view > to 'practical' use of the OpenEHR models. This has been branded > RecordPoint and is being used in Public Health enterprise and GP > Division for records repository and shared EHR. Built into this is a > security, privacy and consent model that was specified by a community of > GP's and health industry contributors to provide a usable and useful > interface to storing, presenting and retrieving data. The server > supports a web services interface, web browser access and is able to > import new archetypes online and interact with them instantaneously. A > built in wizard allows the archetypes to be selected to create new > compositions for clinical document interaction. This has been available > for some 18 months, has been tested thoroughly, has performance > benchmarks and is packaged as a RecordPoint Server. > > The OpenEHR approach does not derive its full benefit unless it is used > in an interoperable model and accordingly we have built tools to support > an ecosystem of components that allow an archetype driven approach to > health information sharing. Accordingly a number of tools have been > created to be used to interact with archetypes, embed archetype aware > code into other applications or develop new applications using the > tools. These include > > - high level archetype objects for application programmers ( because > Archetypes can be very complex) > - Utilities for record display and editing > - archetype designers tools to create new archetypes for distribution > - record browser utility > - dll to run with Microsoft Access ( for those who must ) and .Net > applications > - .Net libraries > - web services interfaces. > - Prototype Ruby interface ( subject to a better serialization library ) > > These tools allow the Archetype artifact to be defined and used > throughout an Archetype Aware ecosystem with front end tools to create > client based archetype applications, tools to define new archetypes and > to store them in a highly scalable records server. In essence to > simplify and streamline a complex information model for use at a > clinical and applications programming level. > > To some degree we have been in internal mode due to corporate > restructuring and a focus on current projects, so there has not been > much fanfare to date. Our efforts have been to embody much of this into > clinically friendly systems for shared record repositories and portals. > In the new year more market information will be forthcoming.
OK, thanks for this information - when I looked at your Web site a few months ago, your RecordPoint product was mentioned but it suggested that it was only available as an integrated part of an enterprise-wide health records system and was not available as a set of components for integration into independent application software. However your Web site now says: "RecordPoint Community Edition is designed for organisations who operate separately from each other but who would otherwise benefit from sharing their clinical information. Examples include Divisions of General Practice and allied health care providers. RecordPoint Community Edition contains the core Electronic Records System and libraries to interface with popular GP desktop applications." Which of course begs the questions: how much is it and where do we get it, and are evaluation systems available? Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
