Tim It is definitely in our plans to do this work....it is a matter of how we get the resources together. UCL - with David Ingram and Dipak Kalra - are going to take the lead on this one. Tom will be working with them predominantly in London on this project.
Sam > 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. - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
