Hi,
I’m wondering if anyone could point me to any publically available texts about transforming archetypes (and templates) from openEHR to other formalisms. Academic publications exploring the (im)possibilities of automatic transformation would be ideal.
Kind regards,
Silje Ljosland Bakke
Coordinator, National Editorial Board for Archetypes, National ICT Norway
Adviser, R&D dept, E-health section, Bergen Hospital Trust
Tel. +47 40203298
A highly recommended and succinct article about the distinctions, relationships and transformations between archetypes, frames, templates and
semantically tractable formalisms is: Alan Rector's: "Axioms & Templates: Distinctions & Transformations amongst Ontologies, Frames, & Information Models" .
His way of clearing up the terminology about (my words here...) information model (in the computer), templates (presentations for humans)
and domain knowledge (boundaries of reality) should be required reading for anyone working on domain modelling.
Look into the citations for more background. Available freely here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479840
(Archetypes are essentially just another template/frame/OO-inspired modelling convention. And yes, Alan Rector is THE authority on the subject matter.)
Best regards,
--- Øystein Nytrø
Thanks Øystein! I was primarily looking for something on a more specific and practical level, but I guess Rector is a good place to start.
Kind regards,
Silje Ljosland Bakke
Coordinator, National Editorial Board for Archetypes, National ICT Norway
Adviser, R&D dept, E-health section, Bergen Hospital Trust
Tel. +47 40203298
Well, the article is both specific and practical. These are fundamental issues relevant for all information and knowledge modelling.
Sorry that the pointer was paywalled.
Try the version https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:201196&datastreamId=FULL-TEXT.PDF
at Alan Rectors home page: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector/home_page_rector/
Essentially, transformation is difficult/meaningless if
a) the representations are about different domains of discourse (data model, interface model, reality model)
(identical labels for different purposes in different representations = future pain)
b) semantics are informal or undefined.
Hi ho,
--- Øystein N.
Hi Silje,
Di you mean transforms from openEHR archetypes to other design-time formalisms e.g 13606 archetypes, CDA templates, FHIR resources?
The work done by David Moner in LinkEhr and academic work by Cati Martinez should be helpful
http://person.hst.aau.dk/ska/MIE2009/papers/MIE2009p0260.pdf
Also NEHTA used the Toolchain features in CKM ( chained XSL transforms) to generate CDA templates from openEHR artefacts.
OTOH perhaps you meant transforming runtime data, based on openEHR archetypes e.g to a CDA document. This has been done by many companies in many places but I am not sure any of it is freely available (yet).
Would any of the openEHR vendors be prepared to share their some of their transform source for educational purposes?
Ian
I have the same doubts as Ian about which kinds of transformations you
are looking for, so I'll give you a summary 
Here we have done several works regarding data instance transformation
based on archetypes:
- Maldonado, J. A., Moner, D., Tomás, D., Ángulo, C., Robles, M., &
Fernández, J. T. (2007). Framework for clinical data standardization
based on archetypes. Studies in health technology and informatics,
129(1), 454.
- Moner, D., Maldonado, J. A., Bosca, D., Fernández, J. T., Angulo,
C., Crespo, P., ... & Robles, M. (2006, August). Archetype-based
semantic integration and standardization of clinical data. In
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS'06. 28th
Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 5141-5144). IEEE.
- Moner, D., Maldonado, J. A., Boscá, D., Angulo, C., Robles, M.,
Pérez, D., & Serrano, P. (2010, May). CEN EN13606 normalisation
framework implementation experiences. In Seamless Care, Safe Care: The
Challenges of Interoperability and Patient Safety in Health Care:
Proceedings of the EFMI Special Topic Conference, June 2-4, 2010,
Reykjavik, Iceland (Vol. 155, p. 136). IOS Press.
- Maldonado, J. A., Moner, D., Bosca, D., Angulo, C., Marco, L., Reig,
E., & Robles, M. (2011, July). Concept-based exchange of healthcare
information: The LinkEHR approach. In Healthcare Informatics, Imaging
and Systems Biology (HISB), 2011 First IEEE International Conference
on (pp. 150-157). IEEE.
- Martínez Costa, C., Menárguez-Tortosa, M., & Fernández-Breis, J. T.
(2011). Clinical data interoperability based on archetype
transformation. Journal of biomedical informatics, 44(5), 869-880.
- Moner, D., Moreno, A., Maldonado, J. A., Robles, M., & Parra, C.
(2012, August). Using archetypes for defining CDA templates. In MIE
(pp. 53-57).
- Moner D. LinkEHR Studio: a tool for archetype-based data
transformations. Arctic Conference 2014
(http://vimeo.com/channels/764149)
Model transformations:
- Martínez-Costa, C., Menárguez-Tortosa, M., & Fernández-Breis, J. T.
(2010). An approach for the semantic interoperability of ISO EN 13606
and OpenEHR archetypes. Journal of biomedical informatics, 43(5),
736-746.
- Martínez-Costa, C., Bosca, D., Legaz-García, M. C., Tao, C.,
Fernández, B. J., Schulz, S., & Chute, C. G. (2012). Isosemantic
Rendering of Clinical Information Using Formal Ontologies and RDF.
Studies in health technology and informatics, 192, 1085-1085.
- Lezcano, L., Sicilia, M. A., & Rodríguez-Solano, C. (2011).
Integrating reasoning and clinical archetypes using OWL ontologies and
SWRL rules. Journal of biomedical informatics, 44(2), 343-353.
- Detailed Clinical Models to facilitate inter-standard
interoperability of data types. Diego Boscá, José Alberto Maldonado,
David Moner, Montserrat Robles. XXIII International Conference of the
European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011), Oslo;
Proceedings (2011)
GUI
- Menárguez-Tortosa, M., Martínez-Costa, C., & Fernández-Breis, J. T.
(2012). A generative tool for building health applications driven by
iso 13606 archetypes. Journal of medical systems, 36(5), 3063-3075.
- Brass, A., Moner, D., Hildebrand, C., & Robles, M. (2010).
Standardized and flexible health data management with an archetype
driven EHR system (EHRflex). Studies in health technology and
informatics, 155, 212.
One about combining all the above
- Maldonado, J. A., Costa, C. M., Moner, D., Menárguez-Tortosa, M.,
Boscá, D., Miñarro Giménez, J. A., ... & Robles, M. (2012). Using the
ResearchEHR platform to facilitate the practical application of the
EHR standards. Journal of biomedical informatics, 45(4), 746-762.
Transformations for the use of archetypes for clinical guidelines
- Marcos, M., Maldonado, J. A., Martínez-Salvador, B., Moner, D.,
Boscá, D., & Robles, M. (2011). An archetype-based solution for the
interoperability of computerised guidelines and electronic health
records. In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (pp. 276-285).
Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
(there are plenty of papers on the modeling of clinical guidelines in openEHR)
Transformations of archetypes for the validation of clinical data
- Pfeiffer, Klaus, Georg Duftschmid, and Christoph Rinner. “Validating
EHR Documents: Automatic Schematron Generation Using Archetypes.”
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 198 (2014): 101–7.
We are currently working on a paper for the generation of
implementation guides from archetypes. Archetypes are transformed into
NRL (natural rules language), Schematron and other validation
artifacts
If you don't have access to any of the above papers I can probably
provide you with preprints.
Hi Ian! I meant the design-time formalisms, so the paper you linked to is exactly the type of text I need. Thanks! Do you know of any publications (academic or other) from the NEHTA work?
Regards,
Silje
Hi,
At last I can use copies for my own collection of articles
Gerard Freriks
+31 620347088
gfrer@luna.nl
Hi All, reposting this as I just noticed it didn’t get thru list server.
Basically I’ve recently updated an openEHR bibliography list on Zotero which I’ve been curating for a while. For those of you who use it Zotero (open source and plug-in to Firefox) is clearly the best! My PhD student and I can manage entries – if you are an expert Zotero user and an academician and interested in supporting its curation please contact me and I’ll add you to the group who can add/edit citations (with full text access). Unfortunately we cannot share full text publicly.