Academic research based on openEHR

Brazil

University of Rio de Janiero

Rigoleta Dutra

• PhD Thesis on archetype-based systems

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

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 approac

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.

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.

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)..

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka; Health Development Research Program(HDRP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

• "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

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

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

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

Ontolog NHIT_EHR, USA

• "Primary Issues in scaling EHR for full deployment" - validating ontology and openEHR archetype requirements and underlying assumptions

Australia

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.

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).

UK

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