Hello everybody, at first I'd like to introduce myself: I'm a research associate the University of Braunschweig, Germany. We are involved in a clinical data warehouse project at Hannover Medical School. I got a background in biomedical informatics and computer science.
We would like to use openEHR to generate a somewhat generic data model that serves the need of researchers in translational medicine. I have an architecture in mind as follows: Specialists create archetypes and templates for their specific domains. Then an XSD is created from the particular template. We derive a XML document of the XSD that is filled with data of our source systems (SAP, HL7 v2 messages etc.) with the help of ETL-Tools (data cleaning and stuff...). Then, the document gets validated with help of the XSD and gets stored persistently into a XML Database (or maybe MS SQL Server 2012, we would need to evaluate its limitations). This consolidated database serves as repository for the creation of dedicated data marts. As far as I understand the architecture of openEHR, we don't need any of the openEHR 'server' functions when our goal is to store data according to openEHR reference model and data is just for research purposes. Is there a trial version of the Template Designer? The sales people of Ocean Software didn't respond yet. This is of course just a rough sketch but I would highly appreciate some comments and thoughts about this approach. To be honst: at first I wanted to give the RIM a try. Then I tried their tools. End of story. With kind regards, -- *Birger Haarbrandt, M.Sc.* Peter L. Reichertz Institut f?r Medizinische Informatik Technische Universit?t Braunschweig und Medizinische Hochschule Hannover M?hlenpfordtstra?e 23 D-38106 Braunschweig T +49 (0)531 391-2129 F +49 (0)531 391-9502 birger.haarbrandt at plri.de http://www.plri.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20130902/e4b40bdf/attachment-0001.html>
