openEHR Introduction

📄️ Step 1: Data Models

Now, after we got an overview, it's time to put our hands on the tools. Though,

After we created the Template, it's time to upload it to EHRbase. The data format that is uploaded to an openEHR server like EHRbase is called an Operational Template (OPT-File). You can find an example of an OPT here.

📄️ Step 3: Create an EHR

When you start EHRbase from scratch, you will find an empty electronic health record. OpenEHR has a patient-centric architecture. This means that all clinical information inside the database are associated with the EHR of a patient. Hence, the first thing to get started is the creation of an EHR for a patient.

📄️ Step 4: Load Data

Step number 4 brings us to the core functionality of openEHR: creating and storing clinical data! For this purpose, we will re-use the Template that we created in step 1. As data instances in openEHR are stored as instances of its Reference Model, it's rather difficult to read for humans. However, this level of abstraction is needed inside the backend to achieve high scalability.