# openEHR in the news in Australia

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**Created:** 2005-06-21 15:08 UTC
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**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/openehr-in-the-news-in-australia/15628

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## Post #1 by @thomas.beale

some may find this interesting\.\.\.http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15675784%5E24169%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

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## Post #2 by @Tim_Churches

Thomas Beale wrote:

> some may find this interesting\.\.\.http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15675784%5E24169%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
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Thomas,

Can you tell us more about the openEHR storage and retrieval engine being used in the Brisbane HealthConnect trials? Our situation is that we admire the openEHR model and think that it is basically sound, and have played with the openEHR archetype editing tools, which seem adequate for the task\. We'd like to have a go at creating some draft archetypes for use in the public health domain, but in the absence of an openEHR storage engine, either open source or proprietary, we don't really see the point except as an armchair thought experiment\. We don't have the resources to build and validate a storage engine of our own \(the building doesn't look too hard; validation is the bit that looks like it would consume a lot of resources\)\. Any advice for us on how \(or when\) we should proceed?

Tim C

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## Post #3 by @thomas.beale

Tim Churches wrote:

> Thomas Beale wrote:
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>> some may find this interesting\.\.\.http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15675784%5E24169%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
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> Thomas,
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> Can you tell us more about the openEHR storage and retrieval engine being used in the Brisbane HealthConnect trials? Our situation is that we admire the openEHR model and think that it is basically sound, and have played with the openEHR archetype editing tools, which seem adequate for the task\. We'd like to have a go at creating some draft archetypes for use in the public health domain, but in the absence of an openEHR storage engine, either open source or proprietary, we don't really see the point except as an armchair thought experiment\. We don't have the resources to build and validate a storage engine of our own \(the building doesn't look too hard; validation is the bit that looks like it would consume a lot of resources\)\. Any advice for us on how \(or when\) we should proceed?

Hi Tim,

you probably should email Andrew Goodchild \(Andrew Goodchild <andrewg@dstc\.edu\.au>\) about the back\-end in use in Brisbane \- he can give you details\.

In terms of open source back\-ends, there is a lot of activity on the Java / Hibernate / MySQL one being developed in Europe\. We think it should be running by the end of the year \(actually, it is running right now, but not all of it is open source\)\. We are a bit derailed at the moment due to having to move everything to subversion, which I am in the middle of\. But we hope we can make the basic system available in the next 8 weeks\.

\- thomas

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## Post #4 by @Andrew_Goodchild

Hi Tim,

DSTC currently has an openEHR based electronic health record system\.  The
system was built for the Brisbane Southside HealthConnect trial\.

We are currently taking a system that was built for a project and turning it
into a product\.  This means removing the Brisbane Southside assumptions out
of the system so that it can be easily deployed in other contexts\.

We currently have two reference sites for its system, one in the south of
Brisbane focussed on diabetes and one in the north of Brisbane focussed on
coordinated care\.  If you have a project you would like to suggest for an
openEHR system, we are always interested in hearing from people who would
like to learn more about openEHR\.

Regards, Andrew

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