@siljelb , if I can be of help in translating to English please let me know.
I tried opening @Dr_Anjali_Kulkarni’s contribution in tools.openehr.org/designer, but failed.
@heather.leslie I’m obviously very interested in knowing how far you’ve got with the transfer of the CAP cancer protocol templates to archetypes.
Work on Synoptic Reporting in Surgical Pathology in Sweden is attempting to combine on the one hand the Functional Design (FD) method used to develop the digital answer proformas for the 30-odd cancer types in The Netherlands in the highly regarded Palga system (Home | Palga.nl, forms only in Dutch on Protocollen | Palga.nl ), and on the other using the thus acquired inclusive functional item sets by pathologists to build pathology report archetypes in OpenEHR.
More detailed: in analogy to the Dutch method, we’ve developed an easy-to-use Excel-based FD interface for pathologists to communicate their needs (items, functionality, calculations) to the IT engineers who build the web-based pro-forma. The collection of items is consistent with international cancer data sets from CAP, RCPath, RCPA, and their combined ICCR, Palga, etc. For clarity and completeness, these international data sets are included in the same Excel-workbook, as well as the Snomed CT codes. In different stages of development are: Lower Urinary tract, Breast, Lung, Liver and Pancreaticobiliary, Colon and Melanocytic lesions. Nothing earth-shattering, I agree.
Introductory work is now being undertaken with Stockholm Region with Elham Gholami, Linda Aulin and Axel Tideholm. We will greatly benefit from @erik.sundvall’s expertise, who, if I’m not mistaken, will join in the effort after the summer holidays - in line with what he predicted in his post of the 17th March! Elham, Linda, Axel and I believe the first step is to start from the users = the pathologist and the clinician he or she is communicating with, and use these FD’s to construct Mindmaps in OpenEHR for organ-specific but hopefully also general pathology archetypes (clinical information, macroscopy, microscopy, ancillary investigations, etc.), so that non-pathologists get a better understanding of the subject matter being mapped. From there we hope to proceed in developing archetypes and templates, inspired by previous work by Ian, Thérèse Högberg Mårder, and others.