Hi Nicola, nice to see interest is building up (in that lovely part of the World :)
Yes you are definitely right that not much information exists about templates and the only tool is unfortunately not freely available. However in order to start working with openEHR concepts and have a hands on experience I think current information, tools and artifacts are definitely more than enough. I did my Ph.D. thesis with archetypes and modeling clinical domains which started in 2003 and from that time I really did not need templates very badly. By no means I want to tell you that they are not important but just to make you notice that they are the last to consider when designing systems. From what I understand, pls. forgive me OO gurus, archetype design is finding out and modeling Classes - the difficult and essential part of a good design. Templates are like Packages or perhaps the presentation layer design using those classes. So without a solid archetype design and EHR structure templates will not make it better. Well having said that, my personal opinion is both the importance and associated information and tools will improve in near future as the society has more real implementations and productive support from vendors. Because templates are just the last step for a real implementation (EUREUREUR) ;) and we must all appreciate a substantial revenue is needed for all this great work go on. Best regards, Koray Atalag, MD, Ph.D. http://koray.asklepion.org nicola onano wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Nicola Onano. > I work for CRS4, a not-for-profit research center in Cagliari (Italy). > My group is interested in the openEHR project. Our aim is to build > EHRs in collaboration with "Ospedale G. Brotzu" (a public hospital, > here in Italy). > I studied the openEHR project, I found it very interesting and I > appreciated the ease of use of the archetype editor developed by Ocean > Informatics. > On the other hand, I can't understand how to create a template from > single archetypes, how to build the skeleton of an EHR, and I can't > find any documentations that explain it. > Do exist any example templates or example EHRs available for beginners? > In the web sites www.openehr.org <http://www.openehr.org/> and > www.oceaninformatics.biz <http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/> I read > about a template designer developed by Ocean Informatics, but it > doesn't seem available. > Does it exist any freeware/Open Source template designer? > > Please, can someone help me? > > Sincerely > > Nicola Onano > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! > Mail > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/it/taglines/hotmail/nowyoucan/nextgen/*http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080109/3680d43e/attachment.html>
