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Our paper on “Linking Health Records with Knowledge Sources using OWL and RDF” was presented at the Information Technology & Communications in Health conference (ITCH) in Victoria, BC, Canada. The paper describes a method by which the Web Ontology Language (OWL) can be used to specify a highly structured health record, following internationally recognised standards…

The 16th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics was held in Aalborg, Denmark on August 28–29. We took a long bus ride from London to get to Copenhagen and then a train back up to Aalborg, which was enough to reveal that the highest point in Denmark, Ejer Baunehøj, is only 170m above sea level. Our…

Version 1.6 of cityEHR was released through sourceforge on 31st March. This version includes a number of new features and some bug fixes – it is the same version that is running in NHS hospitals as of March 2018. A summary of new features is reproduced below from the release notes. V1.6 – New Features…

The specialist XML conference Balisage is held each year in Rockville, MA, just north of Washington DC. The event is a haven for XML geeks and this year we made our first appearance there, presenting a paper on “An XSLT Translator for the openEHR Archetype Definition Language”. The cityEHR Electronic Health Records system is a…

The public release of cityEHR 1.5 has been made today on sourceforge. This is the version of cityEHR installed at NHS hospitals in Q1 2017 and follows the first public release made in March 2015. The 1.5 release is made as a single war file which can be deployed directly into Apache Tomcat and used…

Our paper on “Storing and Querying Longitudinal Data Sets in an Open Source EHR” was presented at the Information Technology & Communications in Health conference (ITCH) in Victoria, BC, Canada. The cityEHR is an example of an open source EHR system which stores clinical data as collections of XML documents. The records gathered in routine…

Naveed Dogar has started research for her PhD at the University of Oxford, with her project on “Internationalisation of Electronic Health Records: Implementation and Evaluation of Specialised Musculoskeletal Systems”. Her research will focus on the implementation of cityEHR for Fracture Liaison Services and for club foot clinics and will seek to develop a set of…

Results of a study into the scalability of the cityEHR database have been published in the proceedings of XML London, 2016. This conference is an annual two-day gathering of prominent XML practitioners and is the perfect forum to present and discuss methods for implementing large scale XML database systems, such as cityEHR. In his paper…

The Elfin system, which manages the process and clinical data for Fracture Liaison Service has started live operation at the Oxfordshire FLS, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. Elfin is now being used by two administrators and up to eight nurses, following a successful period of pilot running which started in December 2014. Elfin uses…

Prof John Chelsom presented the principles of Open Health Informatics and the cityEHR health records system at the NHS Open Source Open Day on 26th November in Newcastle, UK. (See his presentation slides here) The event was attended by over 120 people with an interest in promoting the use of open source software in the…