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This is the humble beginning of a website for the PEN & PAD revival community - https://pen-pad-revival.github.io

Interviews

A conversation with Alan Rector about PEN&PAD, recorded in 4 parts, October 21, 2021

Alan Rector, a central researcher in the PEN&PAD approach to electronic health records, in a conversation with Erik Sundvall and Daniel Karlsson

1. Intro & Demo of PEN&PAD - Now available at https://youtu.be/PGEAmJJ4frU
   • Who is Alan Rector and how did he get involved in this?
   • What was PEN&PAD? (Including live demo of the PEN & PAD-based Clinergy user interface)
   • Where did it lead?
2. The User Centered Design Process, Human Factors, Problem & Solution Space - Being edited…
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3. Technical details, terminology systems, ontologies and logic - Waiting to be edited…
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4. Lessons learned – how we’d do it today + some advice to those entering the health infomatics space - Waiting to be edited…
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Interview updates

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Papers and links

• The PEN&PAD data entry system: from prototype to practical system J Kirby, A L Rector. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1996;709-13.
• On beyond Gruber:“Ontologies” in today’s biomedical information systems and the limits of OWL. Alan Rector, Stefan Schulz, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Christopher G. Chute, and Harold Solbrig. Journal of Biomedical Informatics: X 2 (2019): 100002.
• The opengalen.org website contains a lot of background information and links to more informaton.

Snomed CT Expo 2021 talk

• At SNOMED CT Expo 2021 Daniel Karlsson and Erik Sundvall presented the PEN & PAD inspired talk “Context-aware interactive use of SNOMED CT and terminology services in openEHR-based electronic health records”
  • Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQxf-2NGhoFjlYEdRCdNoBWtUAS1qpn0/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112660550613841635682&rtpof=true&sd=true
  • Video recording is available at https://youtu.be/G0NI-xF2AXM and the SNOMED CT Expo website
  • Thanks to Better for providing free trial access to EHR Studio Low/No-code openEHR tool.
  • Thanks to Håkan Örman for providing remote login to a working Clinergy demo installation at Linköping University (It is still used in teaching!)

Help wanted

• Experd/nerd-competence needed for exploring and documenting how the old Windows XP based Clinergy demo can be installed and run in emulators on Linux, Mac OS and Windows 10+
• Website editing
• Creation of pedagogical material from interviews and PEN&PAD-related papers (focused video snippets, transcriptions, summaries, tutorials etc.) in order to inspire a new generation of developers, clinicians and informaticians to revive the PEN & PAD approach using the tools available today.

Challenge

This can be suitable as student projects, hackathon challenges, personal learning projects etc.

• Use low/no-code tools and user centered design to recreate appraches from PEN&PAD…
• …then fork this repository, and create a subdirectory of your own under the challenge subdirectory with a readme.md file including a description (and links to your project site if available) including ways to contact you.
• Add other relevant description-related files (like screenshots) in your subdirectory.
• Then edit the readme file in the challenge directory to include a describing title with a link to your subdirectory
• Finally submit a pull request so that we can include your addition here.

Ask a local GIT-nerd for help if the process above sounds too complicated.

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