possible openEHR application?

[Derek Meyer <dmeyer@sgul.ac.uk>]

Hi,

I'm involved in a group that is looking at the development of ePortfolios for students' clinical attachments.

One of the issues we are addressing is the cost of providing clinical assessment and feedback in the ePortfolio. Students complain that they labourously document their activities and observations on an attachment, but get very little feedback on whether the amount, quality and variety of their experience is suburb/good/bad/unacceptable for the particular attachment.  However giving the student this feedback requires a senior clinician to read the ePortfolio and comment - and this is too time consuming to happen in practice.

Question: Could openEHR allow students to document their clinical experience in a machine-process able form? 

They could then get immediate feedback on how they compare to other students on the same attachment, and how the attachment compares to similar attachments done by other firms.

If the answer to the question is yes, any ideas on how to make this happen?

Thx,

Derek
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