openEHR archetypes and templates

An openEHR CDR consumes, retrieves and queries patient healthcare data using a standardised open specification and querying format defined by openEHR International.

THis provides a way for clinicians to define and share open-source, vendor-neutral clinical information components (archetypes and templates) which can be consumed, persisted and queried by different technology stacks, as long as they adhere to the openEHR specifications.

Examples of archetypes used in this project are Procedure, Symptom, and Imaging result. These are managed by the openEHR International using the Clinical Knowledge Manager tool and mirrored to Github, with a CC-BY-SA licence.

A repository of archetypes and templates designed for UK use is maintained jointly by the Apperta Foundation at Apperta CKM and is mirrored to a Git repository.

These make use of many of the archetypes on the international CKM< but have additional UK-specific archetypes and templates, intended to help harmonise use across the 4 UK countries and Ireland.

e.g. the 5N CDR project