OpenEHR

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The correct title of this article is openEHR. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

The openEHR Foundation is a not for profit foundation supporting the open research, development, and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). Its specifications are based on a combination of 15 years of research into EHRs and new paradigms, including "two-level modelling", implemented as "archetypes" and "templates". openEHR's specifications include information and service models for the EHR, demographics, clinical workflow, archetypes, and are designed to be the basis of a medico-legally sound, distributed, versioned EHR infrastructure.

1 Two level modelling with archetypes
2 References
3 See also
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[edit] Two level modelling with archetypes

The openEHR approach uses an "archetype definition language" (ADL) to build archetypes, which are reusable, formal models of domain concepts[1]. Archetypes are used in openEHR to model clinical concepts such as "blood pressure" or "medical prescription".

Following the openEHR approach, the use of shared and governed archetypes globally would ensure openEHR health data could be consistently manipulated and viewed, regardless of the technical, organisational and cultural context. This approach also means the actual data models used by any EHR are flexible, given that new archetypes may be defined to meet future needs of clinical record keeping. Alternatively, "integration archetypes" may be defined to facilitate the use of legacy health record and message data in an openEHR health record system.