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CIMI Group Goes with OpenEHR Archetypes & UML Profile

Thomas Beale | Woland's Cat | December 14, 2011

The Clinical Information Modelling Initiative (CIMI) group led by Dr Stan Huff (Intermountain Health, Utah) met here in London 29 Nov – 1 Dec to make a final decision on formalism, from the two remaining – openEHR archetypes and various forms of UML (previous posts on CIMI: DCMs & RM, on formalisms). Instead of simply choosing one, the group made a more strategic choice of designating openEHR ADL/AOM 1.5 as the core formalism, with a corresponding profile of UML being developed to enable the more numerous UML-based developers (e.g. VA, NHS etc) to use archetypes within their UML toolchains....

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New NHS database will succeed with open source and agile, says supplier

Derek du Preez | Computerworld UK | January 17, 2013

The success of the NHS’ new national database, dubbed SPINE 2, will be down to the use of open source technologies and agile development techniques, according to its supplier BJSS. The original SPINE database was core to the previous government’s failed National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Read More »

Open-Source Software: Could This Be The Glue That Holds The NHS Together?

Geraint Lewis | Nuffield Trust | October 6, 2010

Good news stories don’t come around that often for Connecting for Health [...]. But I think I might have found one in the making.  This month marks the mid-way point in a two-year project to build an “open-source community” for the NHS. Read More »