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Knowledge Management and Repositories

These are the places where archetypes and templates are stored, governed, and shared.

Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) - international instance

Status Current - the canonical international archetype repository
Cost Free to use (registration required to contribute)
Operator openEHR International
Platform provider Ocean Health Systems
Available from International CKM
GitHub mirror github.com/openEHR/CKM-mirror

What it is: The global repository and governance environment for openEHR archetypes and templates, operated by openEHR International on the Ocean Health Systems CKM platform.

What it does: It hosts the lifecycle of archetypes from proposal through community review to publication. It includes terminology binding management, FHIR and OMOP mappings, AQL query artefacts, and release-set governance.

CKM instances: Many national programmes run their own CKM instances on the same Ocean Health Systems software. These include UK, Norwegian, Australian, Slovenian, and Catalan instances.

CKM Rocks (Ocean Health Systems)

Status Active
Cost Commercial (lighter-weight than full CKM)
Open source No
Owner and developer Ocean Health Systems
Available from CKM Rocks

What it is: A lighter-weight version of the CKM platform for smaller organisations that need local governance without the full CKM feature set.