Frequently asked questions

A desktop app that gives the openEHR REST API a proper, user-friendly interface, so querying and administering your CDR doesn't require hand-writing HTTP requests.

Yes. ehr-ctrl is provided free of charge — download it and use it, no license required.

The application is free because the hope is that more people will use it and come to understand the openEHR standard. There's plenty of opportunity to build commercial products using openEHR — this isn't one of them.

Having a desktop app means that it can be used within an organisations own network. The app makes no network calls, other that to the CDR itself.

ehr-ctrl targets the openEHR REST API itself, so the goal is to work against any compliant CDR. So far it has been built and tested against EHRbase specifically, since it's free and open source. Once it has been validated against others, we'd be happy to mention them as well.

ehr-ctrl is developed as a cross platform application, so technically could be deployed to any platform. Currently, it is Windows only as the Apple developer licence, a requirement for the Mac, is not appealing.

No. ehr-ctrl is a desktop app that runs on your machine and connects directly to your own openEHR CDR — a local Docker or hosted EHRbase instance. Nothing about your clinical data is sent to us.

Not necessarily. You can browse EHRs, compositions, and templates through guided forms, or run named stored queries. The AQL workbench is there if you want to write or inspect queries directly.

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