Hi Seref, I'm glad to hear that UCL CHIME is getting involved in openEHR tooling using the Eclipse platform.
As you saw at the HL7 UK 2008 conference, our company (B2 International) has been working on tooling support for HL7 v3 modeling. The underlying architecture is standards agnostic and focused on building a logical model to generate code for model creation, serialization, validation, and graphical editing. We used technology standards (Eclipse, Ecore/EMOF, EMF, GMF, GEF, oAW, ANTLR, etc.) to express healthcare standards (HL7 v3 meta-model, MIF- serialized RIM, datatypes, vocab, etc.) so that the API could be used by anyone with a general informatics background. Since you'll be working with the Eclipse framework, I suspect that you'll also be working with more or less the same technology stack. In fact, I believe that you could keep the technical architecture that we've developed in place and focus on the higher-value openEHR domain model. As our work was sponsored by CfH and will soon be released as an open- source OHT project, we'd be happy to go into more detail with anyone that's interested in such an approach and its potential benefit to the openEHR community. Brandon On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Seref Arikan wrote: > Hi, > Tony, please accept my apologies for the late response even though > our work at CHIME was mentioned in the first post. I'd like to give > a brief description of our work, but first let me introduce myself: > I am a PhD Student in UCL CHIME working under the supervision of > Professor David Ingram. I have some industry experience, and our > discussions with Professor Ingram led us to the conclusion that it > would be good to explore the idea of a simple clinical application > built on openEHR. > After further discussions we have decided to move forward with the > Java reference implementation. We have also decided to target > tooling as a valuable byproduct of our work, and already having a > Java based reference implementation, we chose Eclipse as the tooling > platform. > At the moment we are at very early stages of our work, but basically > the idea is to develop a small scale clinical application using the > Java reference implementation. While doing that we would also like > to produce a set of Eclipse plugins that would help us in developing > our application. Tony Shannon has kindly accepted to provide > clinical feedback and guidance, and as soon as we have something > with a mass that is significant enough,we will be sharing it as an > open source application with the community. I hope I'll be able to > share with you our progress as we move forward. > > Best Regards > Seref Arikan > > ps: Thanks Koray, hope you are fine out there :) -- Brandon Ulrich, bulrich at b2international.com B2 International Ltd., http://www.b2international.com Office +44 113 350-2594 Mobile +36 70 334-4491
