Regarding your form - you could try to archetype it, but it would likely only be usable in that particular department of that particular organisation, and there are data elements on the form that are best modelled in different archetype classes - observation, evaluations, instructions etc. - very messy, won't work
Without a doubt, the template is the ideal solution. On the NHS CFH Clinical models wiki there are currently 12 Maternity and 18 Emergency composition templates - http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/TAGS/dev-uk-nhs/Lorenzo_3.5/pub/ContentRele ase-1.0.1/templates/gen/html/index.html that demonstrate how the template aggregates archetypes for a given purpose - from capturing a record for chest pain in the Emergency Department through to recording a Partogram for a woman in labour, and the rest. And of course, the Blood Pressure archetype used in the ED is the same one as the one in the Partogram - re-used for a different purpose, but recording BP in both contexts will show up in a later BP query. And of interest is that in the Emergency Generic Acute Presentation template there are 60 discrete archetypes that represent all of the concepts that need to be recorded for a generic record visit to an NHS ED - from history of presenting complaint, past history, family history, examination, investigations and followup. If you are interested in more of the NHS work, the home page is http://www.ehr.chime.ucl.ac.uk/display/nhsmodels/Home Regards Heather >-----Original Message----- >From: openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical- >bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Greg Caulton >Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2007 12:42 PM >To: For openEHR technical discussions >Subject: Interfaces and Templates > >Sorry, I meant to start a new thread, not hijack. Let me do it now. > >A couple more questions (by the way Leslies description was awesome >and makes total sense). > >Interfaces > >a) When creating a generic outbound or inbound interface with an >extrernal system - do you build based upon the archetypes only - i.e. >provide as many values possible? or your specializations? or is this >all mute and we stick with HL7? > >Templates, as a collection for a use case. I looked out in Subversion >but only see one out there: >http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/templates/dev/html/ > >b) Do templates or specializations or archetypes define workflow >e.g. >record results, based upon results collect additional information or not?' > >In the case were a doc just wants to replicate a paper form but not >improve it would I build a template or stick with Archetypes? So >implementing a form like this: > >http://home.cogeco.ca/~epiphany/FPDoctor-Perfect-Progress-Note-2.0.pdf > >thanks! > > >Greg Caulton >Boston, MA >http://www.patientos.org >_______________________________________________ >openEHR-technical mailing list >openEHR-technical at openehr.org >http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > > >__________ NOD32 2604 (20071019) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com
