Glossary

openEHR

Open source standard for storing and handling EHRs. Official Website, What is openEHR?

EHR

Electronic Health Record:

A collection of digitalised information about a patient(s).

CDR

Clinical Data Repository:

A place where patients’ EHRs are stored.

AQL

Archetype Query Language:

The query language used on CDRs.

Archetype

Little chunks of medical record.

e.g. Medication orders, blood tests, etc.

Templates

Templates are a defined data set created by multiple archetypes as components. They are built independantly of CDRs.

CORS

Cross-Platform Resource Sharing:

a mechanism that allows restricted resources on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the first resource was served.

Federate

Combine data from multiple sources, in this context multiple CDRs. This is useful for the following requests(situations):

• “I don’t care what CDR this data lives in, I just want a list of blood pressures for this patient regardless of whether they were taken at the GP or hospital.”
• “Give me every patient with hypothyroidism across 12 London hospitals.”

Zoom

An online communications and conferencing software that uses cloud computing. Provides services such as video conferencing, online chats, mobile contributions, etc.