Industry wide support for vCard BDI import and export?

Clinical (archive)
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Hi, We are trying to get basic demographics import/export (BDI) using
vCard/Carddav working industry wide. This is an important first step for
doing anything with a patient in most systems. Is it possible for openEHR
to implement import/export by January 1, 2016? My company Astronaut, LLC
which supports a VistA variant has implemented it in approximately 5 hours
of programmer and test time. Our implementation is open source. A sample
output is below. Please let me know as this would be very useful for most
people using these systems.

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:ZZTEST;BILLY;;;
FN: BILLY ZZTEST
GENDER:M
BDAY:19910101
ADR;TYPE=HOME:;;112 anystreet;Maintown;TEXAS;77025
LABEL;TYPE=HOME:112 anystreet\nMaintown\,TEXAS 77025
TEL;TYPE=HOME,VOICE:555-111-2222
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555-444-9999
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:TestEMail@yahoo.com
X-SKYPE-USERNAME:ZZTEST1234
END:VCARD

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Hi Ignacio, I don’t understand the question. openEHR doesn’t “implement” any functionality, just defines the architecture and knowledge management needed to support any clinical system. What you mention is a functionality/feature that can be implemented by end systems.

Rephrasing this, you can “implement” the information structure of the vCard using an archetype. It might take 10 minutes to create such archetype.

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Proceed. :slight_smile:

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Please let me know as this would be very useful for most people using these systems.

I Ignacio, I think it is very useful, also other kinds of communication-means which are not directly medical but relating to the functioning of an ehr-system are welcome software to mention in the OpenEhr context. (F.e. agenda)

Thanks for sharing
Best regards
Bert