Pregnancy Care Record approachPregnancy Care Record approachApproach
The Northern Territory approach to the creation of an electronic Pregnancy Health Record is to use clinically-agreed archetypes as the basis for an Antenatal software development.
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- As a maximal data set effectively everything one can think of about a clinical concept for any user or stakeholder.
- For the 'universal use-case' – for re-use in any and all scenarios, from use at home, to primary care, community care, hospital care, secondary use, health planning and for research.
Archetype types
There are four main types (or classes) of archetypes that are useful to understand – each corresponding to classes in the openEHR Reference Model and each has particular attributes that correspond to clinical processes.
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Candidate archetypes have been developed to represent the wide range of clinical concepts that are used in an Antenatal the NT Pregnancy Health Record.
Content for each of these archetypes have drawn heavily from existing resources such as the NT Antenatal Pregnancy Health Record, the Queensland Antenatal Health Record, the national HandHeld antenatal record and international resources. Sometimes the content alignment with the existing resources is easily recognisable; sometimes it may appear a little different. This is because in all situations the data needs to be represented so that it can be re-used in many different potential activities and scenarios, including safe and sensible clinical decision support.
The existing resources have been analysed and the discrete clinical concepts that contribute to the whole document have been identified. 
For example: 27 24 concepts have been identified within the current NT Antenatal Record.
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