Hi Rahil, Rahil Qamar wrote: > Hi > > I hope its all right to ask a few standards related question on this forum. > > I wanted to know how different the openEHR and CEN Ref Models and > Archetypes are from each other at a logical level. Is it necessary to > understand the CEN stds if working with openEHR stds? Depends on what you want to do ;-) In the near future, the automatic bidirectional transformation for openEHR/CEN will be completed (when CEN works out what data types it is using). This will mean openEHR tools will be able to generate CEN structures automatically. It may be worth looking at the openEHR EHR Extract specification as well. This is not yet finished, but will offer significantly more power than the CEN Extract, while containing a CEN-like mode to act as a wrapper for CEN-encoded information. > In particular, is > it important to know the CEN13606 archetypes if working with openEHR > archetypes. At a logical level what are the differences between the two? > others may know better, but at the moment I don't know of any CEN archetypes. > Another topic area that alludes my understanding is a clear > parallel/possible relationship of HL7 Templates and the use of > 'templates' in openEHR archetypes (the later concept I am very clear > about.. its the HL7 view of templates Im not sure of). It'll just help > in my understanding of hl7 templates w.r.t. archetypes, as parallels are > often drawn between the two. > We would like to know that as well ;-) What I know at this stage is that an HL7 template is a specialised XML-schema of a base XML-schema such as the CDA schema. There is no distinction in HL7 that I know of between what we call archetypes and templates in openEHR. At the best, you would have to say that an HL7 template is like an openEHR template that is built like an archetype, i.e. no re-use of anything, just a single giant archetype built for the particular purpose at hand (which would normally make us call it a template...)...
- thomas beale
