New Open-Source EHR for Education, Training and Research
LibreHealth EHRis part of a 2016 initiative by former developers of OpenMRS and OpenEMR. The program consists of the EHR, a toolkit (API) and a Radiology platform. The EHR is open-source, web-based and free to download. The steering committee has long supported the notion that an open-source EHR would be a good platform for a variety of activities, such as education, training
and research. This initiative received early assistance and support from the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the University of West Florida.It was everyone's vision that an open-source platform such as this could be used by a wide audience of students and instructors.Finding real patient data is always difficult so we settled on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data set 2011-2012. While the patient names are fictitious, the patient data is real. Roughly 9600 patients were uploaded with associated diagnoses, medications, ICD-10 codes and vital signs. Lab work will be added shortly.The goal is to make this platform available free for universities and colleges who teach health informatics, health information management and the health sciences. We hope to host the EHR for a few universities in 2017, in order to gain valuable feedback.For those faculty who plan to use the "backend" of the program, we will offer a SQL dump file and CSV files for all tables, along with the data dictionaries and the SAS transport files. This should provide an opportunity for database management and predictive analytics.A demo has been created which we will make public once we have loaded the laboratory dataWe intend to also offer case studies and scenarios for EHR training and education for clinical and health science studentsFigure 1below shows a screen shot of an example patients "Problem Summary List"
Figure 2shows a SQL query for frequency of diagnoses by ICD-10. The first number is the number of cases identified; such as 1882 patients were coded as essential hypertension
Figure 3shows graphing of blood pressure trends
and research. This initiative received early assistance and support from the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the University of West Florida.It was everyone's vision that an open-source platform such as this could be used by a wide audience of students and instructors.Finding real patient data is always difficult so we settled on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data set 2011-2012. While the patient names are fictitious, the patient data is real. Roughly 9600 patients were uploaded with associated diagnoses, medications, ICD-10 codes and vital signs. Lab work will be added shortly.The goal is to make this platform available free for universities and colleges who teach health informatics, health information management and the health sciences. We hope to host the EHR for a few universities in 2017, in order to gain valuable feedback.For those faculty who plan to use the "backend" of the program, we will offer a SQL dump file and CSV files for all tables, along with the data dictionaries and the SAS transport files. This should provide an opportunity for database management and predictive analytics.A demo has been created which we will make public once we have loaded the laboratory dataWe intend to also offer case studies and scenarios for EHR training and education for clinical and health science studentsFigure 1below shows a screen shot of an example patients "Problem Summary List"Figure 2shows a SQL query for frequency of diagnoses by ICD-10. The first number is the number of cases identified; such as 1882 patients were coded as essential hypertensionFigure 3shows graphing of blood pressure trends
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