Background: Healthcare information technologies have the potential to transform nursing care. However, healthcare information systems based on conventional software architecture are not semantically interoperable and have high maintenance costs. Health informatics standards, such as controlled terminologies, have been proposed to improve healthcare information systems, but their implementation ...

Background: Healthcare information technologies have the potential to transform nursing care. However, healthcare information systems based on conventional software architecture are not semantically interoperable and have high maintenance costs. Health informatics standards, such as controlled terminologies, have been proposed to improve healthcare information systems, but their implementation ...

Jung says clearly ‘the archetype itself is empty.’ What precisely does he mean by empty? We may infer that in the context of his definition, emptiness has something to do with the possibility of imaginal representation as it is filled out by the content of our human experience. The content of the empty archetype, or the image is not determined. It has infinite variety or a boundless quality. In...

A home telehealth system allowing chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart-failure (HF) patients to communicate patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) has been implemented in routine care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden [1]. The system makes use of digital pen technology and Health Diary forms printed on paper for allowing even elderly severely ill patients to use the ...

Using archetypes is a promising approach in providing semantic interoperability among healthcare systems. To realize archetype based interoperability, the healthcare systems need to discover the existing archetypes based on their semantics; annotate their archetypes with ontologies; compose templates from archetypes and retrieve corresponding data from the underlying medical information systems...

With the introduction of EHR two-level modelling and archetype methodologies pioneered by openEHR and standardized by CEN/ISO, we are one step closer to semantic interoperability and future-proof adaptive healthcare information systems. Along with the opportunities, there are also challenges. Archetypes provide the full semantics of EHR data explicitly to surrounding systems in a platform-indep...

Background: Exchange of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data between systems from different suppliers is a major challenge. EHR communication based on archetype methodology has been developed by openEHR and CEN/ISO. The experience of using archetypes in deployed EHR systems is quite limited today. Currently deployed EHR systems with large user bases have their own proprietary way of representing...

A parallel program archetype aids in the develop ment of reliable e cient parallel applications with common computation communication structures by providing stepwise re nement methods and code li braries speci c to the structure The methods and li braries help in transforming a sequential program into a parallel program via a sequence of re nement steps that help maintain correctness while re ...

The OpenEHR archetypes have been suggested as a standard for detailing data models of electronic healthcare records, as a means of achieving interoperability between clinical systems. But, mapping terms of these clinical data models to a terminology system, such as SNOMED CT, is a crucial step to provide the required interoperability. Through this study, we aim to understand better how archetyp...

BACKGROUND Exchange of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data between systems from different suppliers is a major challenge. EHR communication based on archetype methodology has been developed by openEHR and CEN/ISO. The experience of using archetypes in deployed EHR systems is quite limited today. Currently deployed EHR systems with large user bases have their own proprietary way of representing ...