Glossary
- action — a kind of entry used for recording actions carried out by clinical subjects, usually in response to instructions specified by the clinician.
- ADL Workbench — a GUI application for viewing and validating archetypes
- archetypes — re-usable, formal models of domain concepts; artefacts on which the openEHR approach is built (see the openEHR Foundation's official definition
). - Archetype Editor — a GUI application for creating and editing archetypes.
- composition — the smallest attestable/committable subset of information within an EHR. A composition is versionable so information model to represent all the versions of a composition is a versioned composition.
- composition version — a single version of a (versioned) composition (see versioned composition).
- Data path — refers to one or more items in the data
- EHR — the electronic health record of one subject.
- EhrBank — an EHR repository.
- EhrBank Web Service — a web service facade for EhrBank server.
- EhrBank Server — the core API component within EhrBank.
- EhrGate — a client to EhrBank with which EhrView interacts (formerly known as EhrBank Client).
- EhrView — a generic viewer of openEHR EHR data.
- entry — a subset of information within a composition (an evaluation, observation, instruction, action or administrative entry).
- evaluation — a kind of entry used for recording conclusions or evaluations made by the clinician, usually based on one or more observations.
- evaluation — a kind of entry
- instruction — a kind of entry used for recording instructions made by the clinician.
- kernel — a term once used to describe specific subset of components within EhrGate responsible for the core functionality of interfacing with EhrBank.
- LifeKey — a small portable device designed to store a single openEHR EHR and may contain.
- observation — a kind of entry used for recording objective observations made by the clinician.
- OceanEHR — an EHR system based on the openEHR specification; more formerly, a suite of applications, namely EhrBank, EhrGate and EhrView.
- Ocean Terminology Server — an archetype-based terminology service.
- openEHR — an approach to integrated health care informatics (see the openEHR Foundation website for more information).
- OTS — (see Ocean Terminology Server)
- package — a set of classes which make up a component or subcomponent.
- persistent composition — a composition, such as that used to maintain a medications list for a subject, which is expected to be continually updated and frequently viewed. According to the openEHR information model, persistent compositions are "compositions containing information which is valid in the long term".
- Prototype path — path to a template prototype item/structure
- section — a subset of information within a composition containing zero or more content items (such as entries).
- template — a document which draws together one or more archetypes and optionally further constrains items in each archetype to provide a model for a useful instance of EHR data. A single template produces consistent 'views' on elements of the same archetype or combinations of archetypes, whereas 'sibling' templates may provide different 'views'.
- Unique data path — guaranteed to refer to one item in the data
- Virtual EHR — a component within EhrGate, responsible for interfacing with EhrBank to store and retrieve EHR data.
- Version — a single item within a multi-versioned object. This typically refers to a composition version within a versioned composition object.
- versioned composition — a single logical composition; an object containing one or more composition versions.
