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Priscila A Maranhão1, Ana Margarida Pereira1, Gustavo Bacelar-Silva1
1Center for Health and Technology and Services Research - CINTESIS, University of Porto, Portugal.
Introduction And Aims:
Electronic health records (EHRs) are important tools to facilitate communication between care providers and to improve clinical research. In obstetrics they became essential. The ObsCare software was created to answer to the need for an EHR with specific obstetric features. The present study aimed to develop openEHR-archetypes capable of representing an ObsCare® EHR form and to create an openEHR-template using the developed archetypes.
Methods:
The study was performed in four phases: 1) selection and description of the ObsCare form; 2) Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) analysis; 3) modelling of the archetypes; 4) creation and testing of the template.
Results:
One openEHR-archetype - Newborn summary - was modelled to assemble the following three clinical concepts that were not represented in CKM: hours of life, "Examination of newborn movements" and "Examination of reflexes". Finally, an openEHR-template was built and automatically converted into an EHR by VCIntegrator.
Conclusions:
Considering the potential to improve clinical research, we believe that more obstetric-gynecologic clinical statements should be modelled into openEHR.
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