A One-Week, Residential Workshop on the Deployment of Open Source Electronic Health Records, in association with Fordham University.
30th March – 6th April 2025, St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
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This one-week residential workshop, presented in collaboration with Fordham University, brings together participants from around the world, learning how to configure and deploy a model-driven, ontology-based health records system. We use the open source cityEHR system, which has an ontology architecture following the ISO 13606 standard, with the health record stored as XML in the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)..
Workshop participants set up their own installation of the cityEHR and review its main features, using the default clinical information model which ships with the base system. They then create new applications using models previously created for a Fracture Liaison Service, a Clubfoot Clinic, community hospitals in Africa, and the International Patient Summary.
These existing applications serve as a test bed to explore the approaches and tools for creating ontology models that drive the operational health records system, before participants move on to create and deploy an EHR for a clinical domain of their own choice.
On Friday and Saturday delegates join the Global Open Source Electronic Health Records summit meeting, including spectacular dinners at Merton College and the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library.
The workshop is hands-on, collaborative and informative, with plenty of opportunity to interact with the tutors and other participants during the evening social events. Accommodation, meals and refreshments are included in the registration fee, all within the fabulous surroundings of St Edmund Hall, which pre-dates the University of Oxford and is the only surviving medieval hall for the education of undergraduates at the University.
| Workshop | Evening Social | |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Participants arrive at Teddy Hall. | Welcome Reception, Old Dining Hall |
| Monday | Overview of the ISO 13606 standard and model-driven EHR. Install cityEHR and review review its core functionality. | Dinner in the Wolfson Hall |
| Tuesday | Create new EHR applications using existing ontology models. Use open source tools to explore, refine and extend these information models. | Dinner in the Wolfson Hall, Tour of Oxford Pubs. |
| Wednesday | Create a new EHR application focused on a clinical domain of the participant’s choice. Develop an information model that meets the information collection and reporting needs of that domain | Dinner in the Wolfson Hall, Games Night. |
| Thursday | Explore model-driven capabilities for clinical correspondence (letters) and graphical data input using standard SVG graphics. | Dinner in the Wolfson Hall, Open Mic Presentations. |
| Friday | Participants present the EHR systems they have created, discuss the lessons learned and decide on next steps. | Reception Dinner for the GOSEHR Summit at Merton College |
| Saturday | We welcome researchers, engineers, business leaders and investors to review the progress of the Global Open Source Electronic Health Records initiative in Africa, Ukraine and Pakistan, together with research from the US, Canada, UK and Norway. | Gala Dinner at the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library |
| Sunday | Participants depart after breakfast. |
* Participants may book additional nights in college before or after the workshop, to fit with travel plans.