A one-week residential workshop on the deployment of open source electronic health records
17th – 22nd March 2024, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
This one-week residential workshop will bring together participants from around the world, to learn how to configure and deploy an open source, model-driven, health electronic records system. We will use the open source cityEHR system, with an example ontology model for Fracture Liaison Services, which has been created by students at the Univeristy of Oxford and the University of Victoria (Canada).
The workshop is organised as a part of a collaborative research project involving participants from Fordham University (New York), the University of Victoria (Canada), and the University of Oxford.
Workshop participants will 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 will then create a Fracture Liaison records system as a new application and import the ontology model previously developed for that.
The Fracture Liaison system will 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 choice.
The workshop will be hands-on, collaborative and informative with opportunities to interact with the tutors and other participants during the even 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.
| Work Shop | Evening Social | |
| Sunday 17th | Participants arrive at Teddy Hall | Welcome Reception, Old Dining Hall |
| Monday 18th | Overview of the ISO 13606 standard and model-driven EHR. Install cityEHR and review review its core functionality. | Dinner in the Wolfson Hall |
| Tuesday 19th | Create a new EHR application for a Fracture Liaison Service and import an existing ontology model. Use open source tools to explore, refine and extend the information model | Dinner in the Wolfson Hall, Tour of Oxford Pubs |
| Wednesday 20th | 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 21st | Deploy the new health records system on a standalone database and learn procedures for support and maintenance in a live environment | Choral recital in the college chapel, followed by a formal dinner in the Old Dining Hall. |
| Friday 22nd | Participants present the EHR systems they have created, discuss the lessons learned and decide on next steps. | Participants depart* |
