ClinicalTemplates.org supports clinical communities, local and international, which:
- form round clinical topics
- collect resources and develop new information tools or share existing ones
- gather feedback on their templates and discuss how to improve them
Site just open!
This site is brand new, and we would welcome your participation and feedback.
Clinical templates for...
Projects
- ICNP Catalogue Development
- This is a new start-up project. Beta web site due in September 2008 (no link yet).
- NHS Scotland
- NHS Scotland feasibility study into clinical templates as a national resource.
New projects are set to start up soon. Subscribe to our news feed to stay informed.
News
- ICNP Project
- 1 September 2008, 00:19. Derek
We’re very pleased to announce our first new project, for the International Council of Nurses, working with the International Classification of Nursing Practice team.
ICNP® catalogues (nursing data subsets) are being developed for specified health concerns, and aim to fill a practical need for usable tools.We will shortly begin development of a new site using the ClinicalTemplates.org web framework to support Catalogue Development Groups, and then develop purpose-specific collaborative development tools to support them.
- Welcome to ClinicalTemplates.org
- 11 August 2008, 16:18. Derek
The new ClinicalTemplates.org site is now open!
Please take a look round. We really appreciate the feedback we’ve had so far- please use the contact form to get in touch for now. We will be opening up membership soon, which will let you leave comments, here and on project sites.
We have new projects in the pipe-line, so call back to check on our progress. Better still subscribe to our newsfeed.
If you are interested in starting a project using ClinicalTemplates.org, then get in touch.
What is a clinical template?
They can be used in forms to record and communicate care.
A template describes the information in, for example, a pain assessment. So it would list items like the character of the pain, its location, intensity, duration and describe the data that could be entered for each item.
Some are from existing standardised tools, others are developed by groups of clinical practitioners who have expertise in that topic.
You can take a template, modify it in line with the template guidance, and use it to make a paper form or in your local information system. In fact, you can use it as you like. Any copyright or licensing issues will be marked on the template.
The potential is clear- it can save you time, and give you access to the best quality clinical tools and links to supporting material such as protocols, teaching resources, and audit tools.
ClinicalTemplates.org
… is an Open Source portal for various projects working on the collaborative development and sharing of clinical templates and supporting documentation.
The project offers a web ‘shell’ for a collaborative project site, supporting groups, membership, news, blogs, newsfeeds, and wiki. Within that, we are developing a range of plugins to support template building, mappings and other project-specific tools.
Each project site will use the ClinicalTemplates.org membership subscription services, be indexed in our searches, and can publish its newsfeeds here.
The site grew from an innovative project by the National Health Service in Scotland and aims to become a long-term home or point of access to template development by many groups and in many countries.
SnowCloud
… is a new company set up to work on developing best quality clinical information tools. SnowCloud provides the support for ClinicalTemplates.org and is committed to offering world class consultancy and development as part of a community of international expertise.
SnowCloud will, with the agreement of clients, offer the results as Open Source.