Dr. Heather Leslie is listed as the “Director of Clinical Modeling ” at Ocean Informatics in Australia. But I like to call her the “archetype guru”
She has posted an announcement on the openehr-clinical mailing list regarding the launch of the Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM). It is a pathway to get all members of healthcare involved in developing and vetting archetypes for use in openEHR based applications.
Though the email was part of a thread; I will post it in it’s entirety and then give a reference to the thread itself so the readers can view the entire context if they wish.
Hi everyone
I’d like to encourage Rakesh and other clinicians to self-register in
CKM and volunteer to review archetypes!!!! – Instructions here:
“http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/healthmod/Registration+in+CKM”:http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/healthmod/Registration+in+CKM
No openEHR experience is necessary as primarily we need a broad range of
clinical input to make sure that the clinical content is correct.
Technically oriented openEHR people are also on the review teams as well
to provide guidance on design and implementation issues, so there are no
unrealistic expectations of you. Contributions of clinical and technical
nature are equally and gratefully received.
Please ‘adopt’ the archetypes that you would like to be involved in –
“http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/healthmod/Adopt+an+archetype”:http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/healthmod/Adopt+an+archetype – that
way you will definitely be invited to participate in your archetype’s
review. And at other times you may be invited to become involved in a
review where we consider that we need your skills to balance out the
current team of adopters.
For each archetype we are seeking a range of views – from a variety of
professions, and not just limited to doctors and nurses; from a variety
of geographical locations, to make sure we can capture diverse clinical
and cultural practice; from a variety of health domains, so that all
use-cases can be part of the archetype’s maximal dataset.
While we strive for the maximal dataset within the archetype, we are
pragmatic and realistic and know that we won’t get it 100% right on the
first go. However I would go as far as to suggest that a small group of
clinicians with complementary skills and expertise can create and
develop an archetype and get it to about 80-85% complete. Review by a
team of clinicians from a range of professions, countries, institutions,
research, and health domains will contribute and refine the archetype
further – maybe this still will only get it to 90% complete; but maybe
more. Over time it will be interesting to see how the models evolve – no
doubt a good research topic!
Having agreed archetypes in this manner, even if in retrospect we find
they are only 90% complete, is a major step forward and all the flow on
benefits that come from using a shared set of clinical specifications
for EHRs can potentially be great. The capability to further review and
refine the archetypes and managing this is also part of the governance
process – being documented and refined as we write.
So all clinicians are welcome to get involved in CKM – we will certainly
set you to work very quickly! We expect that by contributing domain
expertise and insights, clinicians will also benefit personally by
gradually developing openEHR understanding and expertise as part of the
experience.
And then of course, there is also the contribution to the good of
mankind… 😉
Kind Regards
Heather
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The thread started “here”:http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/private/openehr-clinical/2009-February/001332.html
but was inspired by “this thread”:http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/private/openehr-clinical/2009-January/001312.html
You must be a list member to read the archives (normal mailman procedures) but “signup is easy”:http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical and all well worth reading if you are interested in truly inter-operable, future proof, open source applications.
Cheers,
Tim