* * Over the past year, UCL CHIME has been running a small joint project with the NHS Data Standards and Products Group in the UK, to deliver open source implementations of some key components of the NHS Common User Interface (CUI) specifications. Named CURIO, this very practically focused project has allowed us to gain insight into generic and cutting edge UI requirements for delivery of capable clinical information systems.
The outputs from the CURIO project will be made publicly available, and we believe that having open source UI layer implementations will help implementers explore the challenges of UI functionality in clinical information systems. The NHS has arranged a small closed workshop on January 12th where the work will be demonstrated and discussed. After this, we expect to be given clearance to publish links to both the technology assessment document (about 100 pages) and the proof of concept open source widgets which have been written, demonstrating the NHS Drugs and Medicines list CUI controls, linked with a NHS DM+D database, and the single term SNOMED searching tool CUI control, which will be demonstrated alongside the Opereffa implementation of the LexEVS terminology server. Other current projects at CHIME, such as the open source clinical application development framework, Opereffa, will incorporate both the technology and feedback from the CURIO project, with the goal of improving a growing set of *open*EHR-based clinical systems implementations. We hope that the outputs from the CURIO project will make a useful contribution to the *open*EHR community, by demonstrating the kinds of functionality that the NHS CUI analysis has identified. We believe that the challenges identified in supporting a UI centric approach to applications development, alongside an EHR centric approach, may stimulate some interesting and fruitful discussions. We will post a separate technical note about the progress and future of Opereffa since it was released a year ago and introduce a new and related project known as Project Bosphorus. Opereffa has had some 750+ downloads in 79 countries, notably from the USA. We received useful feedback from software vendors, researchers and clinicians, which led to significantly changed design, and we are hoping to release new versions incorporating these changes in the first half of 2011. We are hoping that the upcoming releases will allow more parties to explore and use openEHR. Seref Arikan and David Ingram -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101214/bee6a533/attachment.html>
