On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 04:56, Thomas Beale wrote: > Dear all, > > The latest versions of these two tools are available at > http://www.OceanInformatics.biz. The code is open source, and a binary > of the workbench is on the openEHR website, but until we make the site a > bit friendlier for downloads, the packages at OceanInformatics.biz will > be easier to use. ... > Both the ADL workbench and the Clinical Editor were demonstrated a > number of times at the HL7 Atlanta meeting just finished (26sep - 1oct), > and were well received. Clinical users are starting to see how their way > of seeing things can be directly encoded into formal domain models - the > archetypes.
Thomas, I am still a bit unclear as to whether there are plans to build an open source Archetypes/openEHR storage and retrieval server. Personally I don't think Archetypes and openEHR will gain widespread acceptance (as opposed to theoretical interest) until there is some readily available means of directly using Archetype definitions to manage data. I am aware of the Ethidium proprietary implementation, and also of the DSTC work being done for the HealthConnect pilots - but there is no indication of an open source implementation that I can see. There is a menu item of "EHR Server" on the openEHR web site under projects, buut the link does not go anywhere. Note that I am not complaining that the openEHR Foundation or Ocean Informatics has not yet produced an open source Archetypes server - it may not be part of your business plan to do so - I am merely asking (again - I know I have asked this same question several times previously) whether there are in fact concrete plans to create an open source server, and if so, what is the timetable. We would love to use Archetypes to manage various types of public health data - they would solve many of the data management difficulties we are running into now - but we do not have the resources or expertise to be able to create an Archetypes storage engine ourselves. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
