Thomas, Yes, I had seen that document and had started to read it. On your recommendation, I will summon additional discipline and fortitude and slog through it.
We use C#. Randolph Neall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Beale" <thomas.be...@oceaninformatics.biz> To: <openehr-technical at openehr.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 13:58 Subject: Re: Basic resource available? > Randolph Neall wrote: > > We develop physician practice management software, so far without electronic > > medical records. I have been following with interest the discussion here. We > > need a more basic orientation. > > > > Does anyone know of a basic resource--a book or extended document--that > > would provide an overview of how practically to implement something like > > OpenEhr in terms of database design in a practice management system, and, > > for that matter explain the OpenEhr concept itself? Everything I've seen so > > far assumes too much prior knowledge. > > > > We operate in the United States. To what extent is OpenEhr in practical use > > in Europe? Hospitals only? Private practices? > > > > Randolph Neall > > Veriquant, LLC > > > > > > > > > THere is an architecture overview at > http://svn.openehr.org/specification/TRUNK/publishing/architecture/overview.pdf > which you may or may not have seen. This is not an implementation guide, > but will give you a feel for most of the principles of openEHR. > > We don't yet have an implementation guide. The community is aimed > creating open source components that implement large parts of openEHR, > so that you don't have to implement it, you can just use it. These are > not yet finished, although there are working versions in Java and C#. > The most efficient way forward for a potential user such as your company > is to understand what the APIs of these components are. These are not > yet published, but we have a pretty good idea of them from the > implementations so far (which can be shared of course, if you are > interested). > > There are also XML-schemas, which are probably the easiest entry point > into openEHR (see > http://svn.openehr.org/specification/TRUNK/publishing/its/XML-schema/index.html). > > What language are you working in? > > openEHR is extremely generic and provides a computing platform for use > in any health environment; applications and archetypes provide the > specific functionality and semantics in any particular situation. It is > new (well, only about 8 years old;-) so its current use is small, but it > is quickly growing. > > - thomas beale > > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________________ _______ > CTO Ocean Informatics (http://www.OceanInformatics.biz) > Research Fellow, University College London (http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk) > Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR (http://www.openEHR.org) >
