Getting Started - general guide

Useful Resources

High-level overviews:

• For a general introduction "openEHR:The World's Record" by Heather Leslie, published in Pulse IT, Australia
• About archetypes - FAQ
• A strategic-level presentation made for BCS/EFMI Special Topic Conference, London, Sep 2008 (2.6 Mb zipped PPT)
• The openEHR Health Computing Platform gives a summary of the architecture with diagrams.

Clinical information

• clinical models project

Technical information:

• The openEHR Primer is a quick summary of the whole story.
• The openEHR toolchain - understanding what the tools do (PPTX (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation, 196.3 kB, info), PDF (application/download, 732.2 kB, info))
• openEHR Technical Primer (7Mb PPT file)
• A British Computer Society presentation, 2007 conference (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 & reference compiler
  
• Archetype Editor
  
• Linköping University knowledge tools project (Java)
• Java reference implementation project
• other projects
• 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.
• Contact someone. See the pages under About Us - this will give you an idea of who to speak to.
• Give openEHR a whole bunch of money or human resource. See the Sponsorship page.