Towards a comprehensive electronic patient record to support an innovative individual care concept for premature infants using the openEHR approach.

Purpose: This paper introduces the modelling of a prototype neonatology electronic patient record (EPR) using openEHR archetypes. The EPR is necessary to support the complex communication tasks of the innovative concept of 'Developmental, Family-Centred, Individual Care of Premature Infants and Newborns' established for the Department of Neonatology at Heidelberg University Hospital.

Methods: The data to be documented was analysed and modelled using the five step openEHR data modelling approach (odma).

Expressing clinical data sets with openEHR archetypes: a solid basis for ubiquitous computing.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the feasibility and usefulness of expressing clinical data sets (CDSs) as openEHR archetypes. For this, we present an approach to transform CDS into archetypes, and outline typical problems with CDS and analyse whether some of these problems can be overcome by the use of archetypes.

Methods: Literature review and analysis of a selection of existing Australian, German, other European and international CDSs; transfer of a CDS for Paediatric Oncology into openEHR archetypes; implementation of CDSs in application systems.

Ubiquitous information for ubiquitous computing: expressing clinical data sets with openEHR archetypes.

Ubiquitous computing requires ubiquitous access to information and knowledge. With the release of openEHR Version 1.0 there is a common model available to solve some of the problems related to accessing information and knowledge by improving semantic interoperability between clinical systems.