| 60 | 60 | * 'designed' archetypes, which clinicians design from scratch. There are many examples in Australia, and a growing library in Europe. These kind of archetypes are based on what we have called the "Domain Base Concept Model" (presentation about this). This sounds complicated, but in fact it just means "the UML model of invariant concepts in the domain, on which archetypes can be safely based". Currently this is the openEHR Reference Model, since it is the openEHR community doing most of this work at the moment. But in the future, we hope that this model will be adopted by others for this purpose, possibly with some additions, simplifications and so on. For example, the Danish Board of Health might want to propose some G-EPJ concepts should go in there. But note: this model is not meant to be large at all; our experience is that the openEHR model of Observation and Evaluation is about right for all archetypes so far developed as observations and diagnoses etc. We are redeveloping the Instruction Entry subtype in openEHR, which will provide a very powerful basis for archetypes for medication, interventions, orders etc. |
