Hi Fellows Just putting all the archive boxes in the shed and have decided to go electronic. Have you got a system working yet or do I have to write my own? :-) Cheers Chris Clay (Dermatologist)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Churches" <[email protected]> To: "Thomas Beale" <thomas at deepthought.com.au> Cc: "Openehr-Technical" <openehr-technical at openehr.org> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: Re: Latest ADL workAtlanta bench and Clinical Archetype Editor > 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 > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

