open source openEHR-related EHR systems; How do you want to be cited...

Hi!

We now getting the LiU EEE paper “Applying REST Architecture to Archetype-based EHR systems” (by Erik Sundvall, Mikael Nyström, Daniel Karlsson, Martin Eneling, Rong Chen and Håkan Örman) finished for submission, and in a background passage we mention other openEHR based EHR systems (where you can enter and query pateint data) that are open source:

“…the situation has changed to the better and more open source alternatives [opereffa, openEHRgen, GastrOS, oship/MLHIM] that explores different approaches to implement openEHR systems…”

Now, if you are involved one of the mentioned systems [opereffa, openEHRgen, GastrOS, oship/MLHIM], what is your favorite or most up to date paper or other reference that you think describes your system best and that you would prefer that people considered citing in academic papers?

If you feel that we have missed listing an open source openEHR system with non-viral permissive licence, then please enlighten us!

Best regards,
Erik Sundvall
erik.sundvall@liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733

Hi Erik,

I don’t have a formal paper on Open EHRGen, but I have a paper of the application of the framework to model a trauma EHR: http://www.slideshare.net/pablitox/proyecto-traumagen-cais-jaiio-2010

You can site this work, ormaybe just put a reference to the project page: http://code.google.com/p/open-ehr-gen-framework/

thanks a lot. (please send me a copy of the paper when available)

Hi Erik, I suggest using this one:

Atalag K, Yang HY, Tempero E, Warren J. Model Driven Development of Clinical Information Systems using openEHR. Stud Health Technol Inform 2011;169:849-853.[cited 2011 Oct 27 ]

Many thanks!

-koray

Hi,

please add this article in press.

Shinji Kobayashi and Akimichi Tatsukawa, Ruby Implementation of the
openEHR specifications, Journal
of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, in press.

Project site: http://openehr.jp/projects/show/ref-impl-ruby
GitHub: https://github.com/skoba/ruby-impl-openehr

Shinji

Hi Shinji!

What is ths status of the Ruby implementation? Is it currently an EHR
system where you can enter, store and retrieve EHR data, or is it an
implementation of the RM+AM like the Java ref-impl, that can be used
as a component to build EHR systems?

Best regards,
Erik Sundvall
erik.sundvall@liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733

This is the description from the project in GitHu
(https://github.com/skoba/ruby-impl-openehr)

"This is the beta version 0.9.4 release of Ruby openEHR implementation
project. This release is still experimental preview of our work based
on openEHR specification release 1.0.2. We implemented almost of the
specifications of the openEHR. The work is still in progress. The
intention is to have a sample EHR to utilize all over the world
quickly with Ruby on Rails.

Parser is nearly performing completely. We now consider to descrive
archetype as another formalism such as YAML, instead of ADL.

Almost all classes passed the test constructed by RSpec2 (formaly used
test/unit). These spec files are under /spec.

Some specifications are not well determined yet, such as rm/security
and so on. We postponed to implement such classes.

Terminology and Demographic server will be implemented in other project."

Hi Erik and all

We will release the first stable branch at this Xmass, coming Dec 24.
The status is like Java/Eiffel reference implementation.
Release 1.0 notes:
* ADL 1.4 parser
* Implementation of AOM 1.0.2 specifications(partially 1.1)
* Implementation RM 1.0.2 specification
* Change license from MPL 1.1 to Apache 2.0

We are engaging to develop web based EHR system for sample with
Ruby on Rails.

Regards,
Shinji

Greetings,
Opereffa is a project that is used in my PhD work, and it has not been published yet. The url: http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk is pretty much the only way to refer to the project.
For authors, the following list can be used:

Sevket Seref Arikan, University College London, CHIME

Professor David Ingram, University College London, CHIME

Dr. Tony Shannon
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Clinical Lead for Informatics, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Honorary Research Fellow, University College London

Kind regards
Seref

Hi!

Thanks for nice replies, hints and suggestions regarding open source archetype based EHR systems. Is any relevant open source project left out, misquoted or misunderstood in the following formulation:

…and several open source alternatives that explore different approaches to implement archetype based EHR systems are available. Examples (programming language in parenthesis) are:
· EHRflex [EHRflex], http://ehrflex.sourceforge.net/ (Java)
· GastrOS [GastrOS], http://sourceforge.net/projects/gastros/ (.NET+C#)
· openEHRgen, http://code.google.com/p/open-ehr-gen-framework/ (Groovy+Java)
· Opereffa, http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/ (Java)
Also, implementations in Ruby [oe-ruby], http://openehr.jp/projects/show/ref-impl-ruby, and Python [oship] http://www.oship.org/ provide components for archetype-based EHR systems.

With a reference list along the lines of:

  • [EHRflex] Anton Brass, David Moner, Claudia Hildebrand, Montserrat Robles Standardized and flexible health data Management with an archetype driven EHR system (EHRflex). EFMI Special Topic Conference 2010 Seamless care – Safe care: The Challenges of Interoperability and Patient Safety in Health Care. Proceedings of the EFMI Special Topic Conference, pp. 212-218. IOS Press BV, Amsterdam. ISBN: 978-1-60750-562-4, 2010.
  • [GastrOS] Atalag K, Yang HY, Tempero E, Warren J. Model Driven Development of Clinical Information Systems using openEHR. Stud Health Technol Inform 2011;169:849-853.
  • [oe-ruby] Shinji Kobayashi and Akimichi Tatsukawa. Ruby Implementation of the openEHR specifications. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, in press
  • [oship] Luciana T Cavalini and Timothy W. Cook. Health Informatics: The Relevance of Open Source and Multilevel Modeling. Proceedings of Open Source Systems: Grounding Research (OSS 2011) Pages 338-347. Springer 2011

Please report any misunderstandings or comments to me or to the list.

Best regards,
Erik Sundvall
erik.sundvall@liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733

Hi Eric, we started GastrOS in SourceForge but then used CodePlex (don’t ask me why!).

The correct URL is: http://gastros.codeplex.com

Happy 2012 to you all J

Cheers,

-koray