Health Information Systems Implementation with openEHR

Objective

The Health Information Systems Implementation with openEHR course aims to provide the knowledge necessary to implement software components based on the openEHR standard specifications, including: user interface generation, clinical data validation, generation of clinical documents in JSON and XML, clinical database design, and communication of clinical data between systems.

Why is it needed?

The openEHR standard allows improving multiple aspects of health information systems, such as flexibility, maintainability, interoperability, accessibility, and technological independence. The implementation of the standard is not simple. There are multiple technical, conceptual and methodological challenges that require a large investment of time in research and development that not everyone can undertake.

This course is dedicated to those who wish to learn more about the standard and how it is applied, as well as to test technologies and learn about best practices in the design and implementation of health information systems. This will allow shortening the gap between the conceptual knowledge of openEHR and implementation in a specific technology.

This is the first openEHR implementation course worldwide.

Who is it for?

The main audience for the course is IT professionals and students (software architects, programmers, technical leads, among others), with an interest in the development of health information systems and the openEHR standard.

Knowledge of communication protocols (TCP, HTTP), formats such as XML and JSON, and basic openEHR knowledge is recommended. Programming knowledge is required. Java and Groovy will be the reference programming languages in the course, but you may use other languages in the practices.

Certification

PARTICIPATION certificates will be issued to all students enrolled in the workshop.

COMPLETION certificates will be issued to those who complete practical tasks and have an evaluation score above 6/10.

Modules

Introduction

• openEHR overview
• Reference architecture
• Archetypes and templates
• Modeling activity
• Archetypes and templates in software activity

Clinical information repositories with openEHR

• Introduction to clinical information repositories
• openEHR repositories
• Database technology comparison
• Object-Relational Mapping
• Design and query activities
• Introduction to AQL
• Storage, query and retrieval services

User interfaces for clinical applications

• Introduction to user interfaces
• User interfaces with openEHR
• UI Templates model
• Automatic generation of user interfaces (forms)
• Form generation activity

Exchange formats and REST API

• openEHR XML and JSON formats
• Data generation activity
• Serialization, validation, parsing and transformation activity
• Introduction to HTTP
• openEHR REST API specification
• REST API activity in Atomik
• Data querying

Related courses

• openEHR Master Class
• openEHR Fundamentals and Implementation
• Clinical Database Design and Implementation with openEHR
• Clinical Information Modeling with openEHR
• EHRServer Implementation and Management Workshop