OCL
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ℹ️ About
Open Concept Lab (OCL) is an open-source toolkit to simplify terminology management and enable interoperable health data exchange. OCL is recognized as a Digital Public Good and coordinates a global community of practice for collaboratively managing and harmonizing health terminologies, dictionaries, and mappings. The OCL API provides real-time electronic access to your terminology content and the OCL FHIR API enables standards-based integration into your health information system.
OCL Online (openconceptlab.org) is where you can use OCL’s open-source tools in the cloud alongside the global community and pre-loaded with key terminologies, like ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED-GPS, ATC and CIEL. OCL is the primary distribution platform for the CIEL interface terminology, which is widely used in the OpenMRS community.
Website: https://openconceptlab.org/
Contact Person: Jonathan Payne
💼 Services
Concept dictionary development and maintenance
Loading open-licensed terminologies, like CIEL, ICD-10, SNOMED-GPS, etc.
AI-supported mapping of local content to target terminologies
Terminology governance and national health data dictionary program development
🤝 Community Activity
Weekly "OCL for OpenMRS Squad" (link)
Primary goal is to make multi-site and collaborative concept dictionary management for OpenMRS as easy and powerful as possible
🕰️ Badge History
2025:
🤝 Notable Community Contributions
Concept dictionary management in OCL TermBrowser, with OpenMRS-specific considerations built-in
OpenMRS-OCL Module to update local concept dictionary
OCL help & support for OpenMRS community members through weekly OCL Squad calls and the #ocl slack channel on OpenMRS Slack
OCL Course in the OpenMRS Academy
👥 People
List of Org Members in the Community: https://talk.openmrs.org/g/OpenConceptLab
Organization Alumni
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Github Repos