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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 Northern Territory Pregnancy Care Record and each has particular attributes that correspond to clinical processes. 
1. Compositions – which correspond to commonly used clinical documents, such as 'antenatal visit' or 'care plan'. (Think of these as the equivalent to the blank piece of paper in a current paper record, before you start to write.)
2. Sections – these are effectively used to assist with human navigation within EHRs and correspond to document headings, for example 'antenatal examination' or 'summary'. (Think of these as the headings that provide a framework for writing on a blank piece of paper.)
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