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Academic research based on openEHR

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Current Research

Country	Institution	Team	Description
Brazil	University of Rio de Janiero	Rigoleta Dutra	PhD Thesis on archetype-based systems [2009]
	Fluminense Federal University	Luciana Tricai Cavalini, Helia Kawa, Israel Figueiredo Junior, postgrad/undergrad students	Epidemiologic Surveillance Support System (EpiS3): a decision-support system for epidemiological surveillance (disease control and prevention for communities and healthcare settings). Current activities: Building archetypes in order to fit the interface between clinical and epidemiological concepts Developing the application on the top of OSHIP (Open Source Health Information Platform), the reference implementation of openEHR specs in Python/Zope3 [2009]
	Minas Gerais Federal University School of Information Sciences	Marcelo Rodrigues dos Santos	Phd Thesis on semantic interoperability involving the usage of openEHR RM and AM models. [2009]
	Hospital das Clinicas University of São Paulo Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine	Center of Information and Analyses (contact: Flavio Barbosa)	Applying archetypes for construction of clinical observations and radiological reports. [May 2009]
Germany	University of Heidelberg / Heilbronn University	Petra Knaup, Jasmin Buck, Christian Kohl	Expressing Clinical Data Sets with openEHR Archetypes Modelling of a comprehensive electronic patient record for the Neonatology Department of the University Hospital Heidelberg using the openEHR approach
Japan	Ehime University	Shinji KOBAYASHI, Eizen KIMURA, Ken ISHIHARA	Ruby reference implementation of openEHR. Home page. [2008-]
Spain	University of Alcalá, Madrid Information Engineering Research Unit	L. Lezcano, Miguel-Angel Sicilia, P. Serrano-Balazote	Development of Java libraries using the OpenEHR Java framework for translating ADL archetypes to OWL. Integrating SWRL rules with archetypes translated to OWL. Mapping archetypes in OWL form to ontologies. [Aug 2008]
	Technical University of Valencia, Biomedical Informatics Group Faculty of Informatics. Murcia University*.	David Moner, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández*, José Alberto Maldonado, Montserrat Robles, Diego Boscá	Description of existing information as legacy archetypes. Formalisation of the constraint part of archetypes as semistructured-data types. Ontological engineering of Archetypes: cooperative development, translation to ontological languages. See LinkEHR editor tool - a generic, schema-based archetype tool - http://www.linkehr.com/. [June 2009]
	University of Seville	Isabel Román Martínez	Integration of Federated EHR Systems Using Semantic Web Techniques - the integration of heterogeneous systems using the open EHR Reference Model and archetype methodology. This has led to the implementation of the openEHR models in OWL (note that these are around 0.95 Release vintage and have not been updated since mid? 2004).[2003-2005] Currently working on SOA for healthcare, using ISO RM/ODP, OMG MDA, openEHR [2009]
Sweden	Medical Informatics group at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköpings universitet, Sweden	Hans Åhlfeldt et.al.	For current details see: http://www.imt.liu.se/mi/ehr/ Project examples: Exploration of archetype-based approaches to the EHR Creation of the Java based LiU Archetype Editor [2005-2009]
UK	CHIME (Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education), University College London	Seref Arikan, Dr. Tony Shannon (chair openEHR CRB), Professor David Ingram (Chair openEHR Foundation, HoD, CHIME, UCL)	Opereffa is a project for creating an open source clinical application which will be driven by the Clinical Review Board of openEHR. It is built on top of a Java based open source framework, which is using the existing open source Java reference implementation of openEHR. See http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk

Past Research

Country	Institution	Team	Description
Australia	Health Informatics Research Group Central Queensland University, Australia In Oct 2007, this group was closed.	Sebastian Garde, Evelyn Hovenga	Development of an openEHR User Interface Generator that employs archetypes, templates, and stylesheets (for the actual design of the user interface) to generate the EHR system's presentation. [2004-2007]
Australia	Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) (now defunct) (Australia)	Andrew Goodchild, Hoylen Sue, Zar Zar Tun	The HealthConnect project is an Australian federal and state government initiative to create a national network of shared EHRs. In May 2002, Ocean Informatics and the DSTC began Phase 1 of a planned multi-phase project to trial openEHR as the basis for the Australian national EHR architecture to undepin HealthConnect and other similar initiatives. Phase 1 of the project entailed detailed requirements and design. It was successfully completed in March 2003. Phase 2 of the project began in January 2004. It involves the development and implementation of openEHR-based software to support a multi-disciplinary clinical trial of diabetes shared care involving hospitals, GPs and allied-health professionals in the Brisbane South GP division, Australia. It is the first clinical trial of the openEHR model and archetypes and as such, will provide an important validation of the approach. DSTC's implementation: Based on openEHR release 0.9. a scalable, secure, shared electronic health record to meet Australias national electronic health record requirements. Implemented using a combination of XML, Web Services, J2EE, Relational Database, LDAP and PKI. Also supports interfaces with external systems via HL7. Smart card support is also available. The user interface is totally web driven and works with most popular browsers. Currently supports Hospital Doctors, General Practice, Pathology, Endocrinologists, Ophthalmologists, Dieticians, Diabetes Educators and Podiatrists. Emergency medicine, pharmacy and community nursing to be added soon. Status (1-july-2006): DSTC ceased and development continued into Extensia products (commercial).
Sri Lanka	University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka; Health Development Research Program(HDRP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka	Puvanendran Senthilruban	"eCare" - a common gateway for electronic health care, with a plan to use the openEHR architecture and its archetypes for patient profile handling Research proposal to design a common national distributed electronic health record system for Sri Lanka, based on the openEHR architecture [2004-2005]
UK	CHIME (Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education), University College London	David Ingram, Dipak Kalra, David Lloyd, Tony Austin, Nathan Lea, Yin Su Lim, and Tom Beale	Contribution to the openEHR specifications and archetype methodology Contributions to Java implementation of openEHR core components Initial investigation into Java J2EE implementation of openEHR EHR, Demographics and archetypes services Java JNI wrapper for the Ocean Informatics for Eiffel reference ADL parser [2004-2007]
UK	University of Manchester, UK	Prof Alan Rector, Rahil Qamar	Assistance migrating openEHR Archetype Definition Language to other formalisms such as XML Investigation of the openEHR-GALEN terminology linkage [2004-2007]
US	Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, USA	Peter Elkin	Investigating how openEHR archetypes and/or archetype-like structures can be applied to solve problems within Biomedical Informatics
US	Ontolog NHIT_EHR, USA	Bob Smith	"Primary Issues in scaling EHR for full deployment" - validating ontology and openEHR archetype requirements and underlying assumptions