What is openEHR and why does healthcare need it?
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Catalonia's openEHR CDR for 8 Million People
Catalonia wanted an openEHR Clinical Data Repository for 8 million people. Medblocks worked with IBM and vitagroup to design the sync layer for hospitals.
Foundational openEHR: Archetype Classes and Lifecycle
Develop applications that suit your clinical needs with a deeper understanding of openEHR Archetype Classes and Clinical Knowledge Manager lifecycle.
Interoperability Runs on Open Source, Not Standards
While open standards set the rules, open source gets the work done. Discuss choosing tools, handling semantics and making health systems interoperable.
Announcing Medblocks openFHIR: An open-source engine that bridges openEHR and FHIR
Introducing openFHIR, an open-source bidirectional mapping engine converting between openEHR and FHIR standards. Built on FHIRConnect, Apache 2.0.
openEHR vs FHIR and other health IT standards
Health IT has various standards, and choosing the right one is often confusing. Understand the differences clearly to select the right standard.
An Intuitive Guide to AQL (Archetype Query Language)
This article simplifies AQL (Archetype Query Language) by breaking it down into basic concepts with examples suitable for even beginner openEHR levels.
Host An Authenticated EHRbase Server In The Cloud In Under 15 Mins
This article provides a step-by-step guide to hosting an authenticated EHRbase server in the cloud and exposing its REST APIs over HTTPS using Traefik.
What are openEHR Archetypes and Templates? A Beginner’s Guide
Have you been confused by all the openEHR terminology? What even are archetypes and templates? Read on to find out.
Why We're Reinventing the EHR
Traditional healthcare software development has significant drawbacks. A platform with standardized features and extensible features might be the right answer.
How to Create an EHRbase Plugin
Extend your openEHR Server! Learn how to create an EHRbase plugin that can make additional calls to the database and create a transactional outbox.
Which Health IT Standard to Pick: FHIR, openEHR, or OMOP?
Each domain has its own best-suited standard: FHIR, openEHR, and OMOP respectively. There's an art to picking the standard for the data use case.
Designing openEHR templates using the Archetype Designer
openEHR standardizes health data with archetypes and templates for interoperability. Templates are built from Archetypes using the Archetype Designer Tool.
How to Use the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager
A beginner-friendly guide to navigating the openEHR CKM or Clinical Knowledge Manager, including searching, viewing and downloading clinical artefacts.
Understanding the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager
In this comprehensive guide to Clinical Knowledge Manager, understand how CKM drives openEHR's core principles of standardization and interoperability.