Joint OpenEHR / FHIR review of Allergy-related Resources
Jun 3, 2014I’m really pleased to announce a new initiative as part of the ongoing development: we’re going to do a joint review of the FHIR resources for Allergy/Intolerance (AllergyIntolerance and AdverseReaction), and the openEHR archetype for the equivalent content (openEHR-EHR-EVALUATION.adverse_reaction.v1). The review is going to be done on the openEHR CKM, on a newly prepared archetype that shows the essential content models of the existing archetypes and resources (they’re quite different) The review will open in the next week or so (final details still being nailed down) and will be open to everyone - the openEHR community, the HL7 community, and anyone else interested in representing allergies in clinical systems, or exchanging records of them between systems.
Note that OpenEHR and FHIR have different a purpose with regard to why resources and archetypes are defined and differing philosophy about how things are done, so we’re not expecting to get exactly the same content models at the end of this process, but we are intending to get consistent content models between the FHIR and openEHR communities. Note for the HL7 community: any changes proposed to the FHIR resource are then subject to the HL7 ballot process, and we are hoping that we can work with the openEHR community when we resolve the ballot content, so that we can continue to have aligned models.
This is a trial run - if it works well, we hope to both formalize the process, and to follow on with clinical review of other FHIR resources, and to create a drive towards wider collaboration and convergence between the communities.
For my many readers who aren’t familiar with openEHR CKM - don’t sweat on it. It’s pretty straightforward - we chose to use it for that reason, and I’ll post more details about how to join the review process in a few days time.
p.s. I’d like to thank the HL7 Patient Care WG co-chairs and the openEHR clinical modeling leads for kicking off this joint review process, and to many people within HL7 for their support.