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
Welcome to ClinicalTemplates.org
ClinicalTemplates.org supports the development of an open source web framework for web-based collaboration on development of clinical templates and other clinical information standards.
The web framework is taking shape as we develop new partnerships. To keep up with the news here, remember to subscribe to our news feed.
We would welcome your participation and feedback.
Clinical templates for...
Projects
- SR-WEHR - Wiki per openEHR
- A project to support clinical content development for Liver Transplant Surgery for Sardegna Ricerche, delivered in partnership with Ocean Informatics.
- The project site is on-line, but only open to SR-WEHR staff.
- ICNP Catalogue Development
- This is a new web resource for the International Council of Nurses, to support collaborative development of catalogues and mappings based on the International Classification of Nursing Practice.
- 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 C-Space taking off
- 22 September 2009, 11:54. Derek
The ICNP C-Space now has 500 registered users- most in the last 3 months since it was used to launch version 2 of ICNP. The programme advisory groups are meeting in ICN HQ in Geneva over two days, and there are some great ideas with next steps on moving this work into clinical content development.
- NI2009 Detailed Clinical Models
- 30 June 2009, 06:09. Derek
Welcome to people visiting here following the panel presentation on Detailed Clinical Modelling at NI2009. As promised, the first part of the presentation is available here (PDF, 6MB)
The Panel featured Derek Hoy, Anne Casey, Evelyn Hovenga and William Goossen.
- ICN Congress Durban
- 30 June 2009, 06:01. Derek
Nick is part of the ICNP team which is at ICN Congress in Durban, South Africa this week, for the launch of ICNP version 2.
The ICNP C-Space resource (based on the ClinicalTemplates.org framework) is now the home of ICNP version 2, including the browser and a facility to register your project and download ICNP.
- ICNP site goes live.
- 10 April 2009, 18:07. Derek
The ICNP project site has now gone live.
The site now has a working version of the mapping tool, and is being used first by the Scottish Community Nursing Census project to map its dataset to the ICNP.
Over the coming months, we expect other groups to take life working on further mappings and to help work on the Catalogue development tools.
- Trip to Cagliari
- 10 April 2009, 17:58. Derek
I have recently returned from a very interesting trip to Brotzu Hospital, in Cagliari, Sardinia. While there, Ian McNicoll (of Ocean Informatics) and I gave a presentation to the informatics staff and members of the Liver Transplant Department on the role of openEHR archetypes and templates in the development of their EHR system.
We then spent a day working on the technical aspects of the project with the project team members there. It is always good to meet people after working with them ‘virtually’ and we look forward to moving the project on over the next few months. Their site should be live very soon.
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.