Getting Started - general guide

Useful Resources

Getting to grips with openEHR can be a little overwhelming if you are completely new.

For non-technical people:

• For a general introduction "openEHR: The World's Record" by Heather Leslie, published in Pulse IT, Australia
• About archetypes (FAQ) and clinical models, one of the main activities in openEHR.

Here is a list of resources for a more technical audience:

• The openEHR Primer is a quick summary of the whole story.
• The openEHR Health Computing Platform gives a summary of the architecture with diagrams.
• Two recent (2007) presentations provide a good overview: openEHR Primer (7Mb PPT file), British Computer Society presentation (1.6 Mb PPT file).
• Short paper about the theory of Entry types, in which the 'hard' clinical information in openEHR is stored (PDF)
• Architectural Overview (PDF, HTML) - a long-ish technical overview with many diagrams, covering the whole architecture of openEHR
• Online UML (browsable, printable) of the whole Reference Model (Information Model and Archetype Model)

Other resources:

• Want to know who is using openEHR? Vendors, government, academia.
• For those interested in history of the work - the Origins of openEHR.

Contact

I want to:

• Develop archetypes - see the clinical models project.
• Work on the specifications - see the specifications project.
• Develop software - see the implementation projects:
• ADL workbench project (Eiffel)
• Archetype Editor Project (.Net)
• Linköping University knowledge tools project (Java)
• Java reference implementation project
• some other project....see the Software Projects in the home page menu
• Write a paper - see the publications pages to see what already exists. The mailing lists will give some idea of what kind of things people are talking about.
• Plan a meeting with you. See the pages under About Us - this will give you an idea of who to speak to.
• Give you a whole bunch of money or human resource. See the Sponsorship page.