# Data Explorer - Does this already exist ?
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/data-explorer-does-this-already-exist/11962
**Category:** Tool Support
**Created:** [17 April 2026 17:06 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/data-explorer-does-this-already-exist/11962 "2026-04-17T17:06:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@richard.kavanagh](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/richard.kavanagh)
#### Post date: [17 April 2026 17:06 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/data-explorer-does-this-already-exist/11962/1 "2026-04-17T17:06:06Z")
Recently, like many others, I was experimenting with Claude Code to see how it works and just how quickly something could be built using it. I took inspiration from the FHIR tool at [https://vanyalabs.com/](https://vanyalabs.com/), which is targeted at people using FHIR.
I wasn’t aware of anything similar for openEHR, so I built a tool surprisingly quickly. I have attached a video, which is hopefully self-explanatory, but I thought I would ask the community two questions.
To be clear, the tool is intended as a development tool, not a tool for clinical end-users.
1. Is this a solved problem? Are there already existing tools that allow people to explore the content of a CDR?
2. Would the tool be useful to others (if developed further) ?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CYM7z1axRk)
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### Author:  [@pablo](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/pablo)
#### Post date: [17 April 2026 19:00 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/data-explorer-does-this-already-exist/11962/2 "2026-04-17T19:00:59Z")
In openEHR related systems, we do have data viewers integrated into [Atomik standardized Clinical Data Repository and Demographic Data Repository](https://atomik.app/documentation/ehrs) (CDR and demographics), and also on [https://toolkit.cabolabs.com/](https://toolkit.cabolabs.com/) (test data).
Atomik can also show queries, transform to AQL and execute the queries from the GUI to test them and check results before fully integrating clients for those queries form the REST API.
There is a video I recorded recently showing some of that stuff [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdmsxKYqDA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdmsxKYqDA)
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### Author:  [@platzhersh](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/platzhersh)
#### Post date: [27 August 2026 09:29 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/data-explorer-does-this-already-exist/11962/3 "2026-08-27T09:29:52Z")
I just discovered this through your profile.
Funny timing looking back. I hit the same starting point independently around the same time (beginning of April). I also saw Vanya Labs (the Postman-style FHIR client) and asked myself the exact same: “does something like this exist for openEHR?”.
I then built **openEHR Explorer** : a cross-platform (Tauri + Rust + Vue) desktop CDR browser, Apache 2.0. Positioned it as “Postman for openEHR,” with the main differentiator being template-aware rendering — resolving `at0006`-style node IDs against the Web Template so compositions actually read like clinical data instead of opaque JSON.
- Repo: [GitHub - platzhersh/openehr-explorer: Browse, query, and inspect any openEHR CDR — no curl required. · GitHub](https://github.com/platzhersh/openehr-explorer)
- Site: [openEHR Explorer — Browse, Query, and Inspect Any openEHR CDR](https://platzhersh.github.io/openehr-explorer/)
- Announcement on openEHR Discourse: [🔍 openEHR Explorer - a cross-platform desktop CDR browser (macOS/Windows/Linux)](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/openehr-explorer-a-cross-platform-desktop-cdr-browser-macos-windows-linux/17229)