Hi all, sorry I couldn’t be in the kickoff (impossible time zone for me).
I’m Pablo, I’m a Computer Engineer from Uruguay, working as consultant, educator and integration engineer on projects related to clinical data modeling, management and exchange, especially focused on using standards (protocols, formats, apis, etc).
I’ve been developing openEHR-related software for the last 20 years. Started in 2006 implementing the RM and archetypes in a ICU EMR, then developed a trauma EHR in 2009 with autogenerated GUI and clinical flows based on archetypes, with generic archetype-based persistence.
That experience lead to improving the persistence/query side, now based on templates, to develop EHRServer which was released as the first open source openEHR-compliant CDR in 2013, which helped thousands of students and professionals to start working with openEHR.
Around 2013/2014 I also released the first openEHR SDK (which was used by EHRServer).
In 2017 I released the openEHR Toolkit (https://toolkit.cabolabs.com/) which is a web app that uses the openEHR SDK to help working with openEHR artifacts (manages templates and archetypes, generates JSON instances, does schema and template validation, etc).
And around 2020 I started offering Atomik (https://atomik.app/) which is the evolution of the EHRServer, and handles demographics, EHR merge/unmerge, has some reports, does patient dup detection, supports attestations, etc.
From 2011 I’ve been providing training and education around openEHR (offered the first online openEHR course in Spanish and English) and had hundreds of students on different areas (Foundation, Clinical Modeling, Software Development with openEHR, EHRServer Management, Clinical Data Repository design and implementation with openEHR, etc.).
Recently refactored the openEHR SDK and separated the CLI part to another project, so projects could use the SDK as a library and the CLI as an app, independently. The CLI also includes an MCP server for LLM integration. More about this 🚀 New Open Source Tool for openEHR: openEHR-CLI
From 2012 I started my own company, CaboLabs, from which I help other bigger companies on topics related to openEHR, DICOM, HL7 v2.x, FHIR, etc.
Fun fact: I actually started my clinical informatics career with openEHR and learned all the basics from studying its specs, so I’m very grateful towards the openEHR specs, the community (which was smaller back then) and the giants that back in 2002 led to the publication of the first specs that I was able to learn from in 2006. I remember printing out ADL files to read offline, nice memories…
I guess I’m here because of my obvious interest in openEHR-based software, but specially to find points of collaboration, exploration and innovation in that area, and to try to overcome the limitations / friction points of existing software, to help improving our tools.