Another intermediate ART-DECOR® release – 1.8.36 – has been published mid of January 2017. Since the last update to 1.8.29 in September, a lot of new features and improvements have been implemented so the ART-DECOR Expert Group felt, that an intermediate release – before ART-DECOR® 2.0 gets published later this year – would be of great support for the community.
ART-DECOR® is an open-source tool suite that supports the creation and maintenance of HL7 templates, value sets, scenarios and data sets. The tool features cloud-based federated Building Block Repositories (BBR) for Templates and Value Sets. It supports comprehensive collaboration of team members within and between governance groups. ART-DECOR® allows separation of concerns and different views on a single common documentation for different domain experts and multidisciplinary stakeholders of healthcare information exchange.
BTW: 1.8 is the stable release series of versions, 1.9 is handled internally by us as the development edition. That’s why we’re close to 2.0 :-). This is a summary of the recently added features and enhancements, sorted by areas.
Templates
Template editor (base)
Development, Validation and Testing
Publishing
Terminology
Value Sets
Projects
Datasets/Scenarios/Transactions
Issues
Visual improvements and menu changes
Miscellaneous
Realm-specific additions
ADRAM (ART-DECOR Release and Archiving Manager)
ADRAM is now released as version 2.24 and got an option to allow partial publications and handle governance group publications appropriately.
ADRAM is used since a couple of years for publication management in the Netherlands (Nictiz) and Germany. Recently it has successfully installed and tested on the official ART-DECOR sever hosted by IHE Europe and parametrized for the National Infrastructure Projects in Switzerland (eHealth Suisse) and Austria (ELGA).
ADAWIB (ART-DECOR Automatic Wiki Interface Bot)
ADAWIB is now released as version 6.1. HL7 Germany uses ADAWIB since years to extract the project artefacts to a Wiki Environment. Production use of wiki exports features by ADAWIB is now also set up and used for eHealth Suisse (Switzerland) and for ELGA (Austria) the publication facilities through wiki enhanced by ADAWIB was started.