Thank you, Thomas
Now I understand that I:
1) can store list of actors (organizations, users, roles etc) in some external storage
2) shall avoid to store whatever demographic information in an EHR storage - except for PARTY identifiers (issued by some external system)
3) can connect participants in both systems by their IDs
Hi Bert,
No, the Ocean Archetype Editor doesn’t support demographics yet. Fixes and improvements to the EHR support have always been higher priority in the past, according to the tool's users.
Ian McNicoll did make some progress on demographic support a few years ago and he said it was looking like it wouldn’t be too difficult, but I guess other priorities must have intervened.
Peter
Thanks Peter,
Yes. I did make a start on this a few years back but got bogged down in not being families with the ui aspects by which time the LinkEhr editor was handling Demographics archetypes nicely.
I think this another opportunity to remind everyone that openEHR is a community that relies almost entirely on volunteer efforts to build and maintain the specs, software and clinical content models. Historically companies like Ocean have put a lot of effort into building tools which are open source but inevitably the direction and effort will mirror the requirements of their customers. Since the archetype editor is open source, others who see a need for demographics support are free to add this. I will be very happy to put my initial efforts up on a fork if others want to take it forward.
I am sure we would all sign up to a future where this kind of critical tooling work was underpinned by solid funding by we simply do not have that luxury right now.
Ian
I understand, Peter and Ian, maybe I will build one within a few months, I have planned it, if nothing urgent comes between. It is not very complicated to do.
Bert
Did anyone tried the marand’s online editor with the demographic model? Opinions?
I would not advise to use an online archetype-editor, if you want your archetypes and templates to be private IP.
It is good for students and newcomers who want to test some ideas, or for companies which go open source anyway, but for people wanting to build a private medical business and have their medical business ideas expressed in archetypes and templates, the idea of an online editor in hands of a competing commercial company is not always a comfortable idea.
I experienced more people, not necessary on this list, feel the same.
Bert
Hi Bert,
to my understanding, the marand editors are open source and based on web technologies. There is no need to create/edit archetypes and templates on someone else's server, just let it run in your private network (or locally on your computer).
Cheers,
Birger
Thanks Birger, I didn't know that, that is, of course, another story. In that case, I will take a look at it right away.
Bert
I believe it does not support demographic archetypes, if this link is the right one
So perhaps someone could consider adding demographic support? The source is at https://github.com/openEHR/adl-designer.
ian