HiGHmed Modeling Hackathon at University Hospital Heidelberg

On Thursday June 26th 2019, the HiGHmed modeling hackathon brought participants from our clinical partner sites in Heidelberg, Hanover, Cologne and Berlin together to discuss their current openEHR modeling activities. During the event, data modelling and software development experts collaborated to create the openEHR template concept for the use case Oncology. In addition, the participants discussed challenges encountered in modeling the yet to be finalized archetypes and drafted five new openEHR templates for the use case being addressed. The results were shared within the modeling group using Bitbucket, a web-based version control repository for collaborative software development. This team-building event was the continuation of a series that began with an openEHR modeling workshop in March 2018, and also left an excellent impression on the young participants, who gave very positive feedback.

Previous openEHR modeling events:

• Hanover, June 2018: „Clinical Modeling à la openEHR – von Archetypen zu Templates & Das openEHR Reference Model – Aus Sicht der Modellierung“ (organized by Antje Wulff and Birger Haarbrandt from Hannover Medical School)
• Hanover, April 2019: „Advanced modeling workshop – BarCamp” (organized by Antje Wulff from Hannover Medical School)

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  Aurelie Tomczak, research associate at University Hospital Heidelberg, presenting during the modeling hackathon. Photo: HiGHmed

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  Use case oncology modeling group: from left to right back row: Christina Jäger-Schmidt (University Hospital Heidelberg, Aurelie Tomczak (University Hospital Heidelberg), Simon Schumacher (University Hospital Cologne); from left to right front row: Samer Alkarkoukly (University Hospital Cologne), Florian Kärcher (Charité Berlin), Louisa Bode (Hannover Medical School), Alina Rehberg (Hannover Medical School), Carina Lerch (University Hospital Heidelberg), Katrin Tröltzsch (University Hospital Heidelberg), Natalia Strauch (Hannover Medical School and HiGHmed use case Oncology modeling leader) Photo: HiGHmed