Join or comment CDR Catalyst initiative from Karolinska

Dear community,
we need to speed up how new and old kinds of data enter Karolinska’s and Region Stockholm’s joint openEHR CDR and associated FHIR- server and other parts of our data platform and also result in implemented clinical applications.

We want to be as open and collaborative as possible. Our focus is to together with the rest of the world fight disease and unnecessarily early deaths, rather than competing in care or smartness through secrecy. We believe there are other organizations with similar thoughts (that may be on our radar or not). Thus we are openly reaching out for collaboration regarding tooling and AI-context/harness by publishing a draft describing our “CDR Catalyst” initiative for comment and discussion here.

It is also a form of information to the market since we might solve the resouce need for this as a combination of current staff, new permanent+temporary employments and procured services.

Here is a link to the public Google Docs “living” document that is open to comment for anybody:

P.S.
In case you can’t or don’t want to access the Google Docs version here is also a frozen copy of version 0.4 as a word (docx) file (6.4 MB), do note that the file may be outdated compared to the living google document linked further up.

Great initiative Erik!
To what degree have you been able to extract data from your existing EHR and load it into the CDR? What types of data, what archetypes (or templates), any insights so far?

Hi @martin.grundberg! The principles and some experiences from current EHR (TakeCare) conversion are outlined farily well in the presentations linked from GitHub - regionstockholm/poc_tc2openEHR · GitHub (as mentioned in the CDR catalyst document) and also briefly in the poster abstract A13 from EHRCON2025

After the PoC we continued with what was describeed as “Phase 2” in the EHRCON2025 presentation and have there covered more kinds of data. However we will pause the TakeCare part for a while now and the same people will instead focus on another legacy system called “Obstetrix” (maternity & birth focused EMR) due to external factors making that more urgent.