# Templates and RM

**URL:** <https://discourse.openehr.org/t/templates-and-rm/15332>\
**Category:** Implementers (archive)\
**Created:** [4 November 2014 08:51 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/templates-and-rm/15332 "2014-11-04T08:51:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/user_avatar/discourse.openehr.org/thomas.beale/32/35_2.png) [@thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/thomas.beale)\
**Post date:** [6 November 2014 15:44 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/templates-and-rm/15332/21 "2014-11-06T15:44:53Z")

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For amusement value, here is my comment \<[http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn#comment-27093075&gt](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn#comment-27093075&gt); on a Guardian article as to why the UK programme failed.

With respect to hardwired / hard coded access, I think you are talking about APIs or fixed messages. I potentially agree with that, and as over time we should be able to address more of that area, possibly with integrations to IHE and FHIR specifications. But I think that's a different technical job than what archetypes, templates and underlying RM were designed for - APIs are layers on top, with potentially complex logic in between.

- thomas

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.openehr.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f0a1dedb20c42747bddcafd6c7df9db5f34f003c.svg) [@system](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [6 November 2014 22:20 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/templates-and-rm/15332/22 "2014-11-06T22:20:33Z")

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Must be a strange feeling of self-confidence, for people working at CSC, making billions with failures. Of course, everything ends up in API’s. The API-users do not have anything to know about the back-system. What I am talking about is exactly a convenient way to come to API’s. Bert

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