title: Facilitating the openEHR approach - organizational structures for defining high-quality archetypes.
abstract: Using openEHR archetypes to establish an electronic patient record promises rapid development and system interoperability by using or adopting existing archetypes. However, internationally accepted, high quality archetypes which enable a comprehensive semantic interoperability require adequate development and maintenance processes. Therefore, structures have to be created involving different health professions. In the following we present a model which facilitates and governs distributed but cooperative development and adoption of archetypes by different professionals including peer reviews. Our model consists of a hierarchical structure of professional committees and descriptions of the archetype development process considering these different committees.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian Dominik
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Garde
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Knaup
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D001315:Australia; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010380:Peer Review; D012660:Semantics; D018511:Systems Integration; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*