openEHR Explorer

Browse, query, and inspect any openEHR CDR — no curl or Postman collection required.

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v0.8.0 · macOS · Windows · Linux · Installation guide

Connect a server · browse EHRs · inspect templates · AQL with autocomplete

See it in action

EHR Browser showing a paginated list of EHRs on the left and a selected EHR's details plus grouped compositions on the right — Browse EHRs and drill into their compositions, grouped by template.

Template Browser showing the list of templates on a server and an interactive OPT tree for the selected template — Inspect Web Templates as a readable tree, with FLAT paths and raw OPT XML alongside.

AQL Runner showing a query editor with a SELECT query and a tabular result set below it — Write and run AQL queries with syntax highlighting, saved queries, and CSV export.

Features

Native Desktop App

Cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux). No Docker, no backend, no runtime. Installs in seconds.

Template-Aware Viewer

Compositions render with human-readable archetype labels — at0006 becomes "Any Event", not noise.

AQL Query Runner

Write and execute AQL against your CDR. Results in a sortable table. Save queries, export CSV.

FLAT Path Panel

One-click copy of any FLAT path from the Web Template tree. Built for SDK and integration developers.

Multi-Server Profiles

Save named connections to EHRBase, Better Platform, or any openEHR REST server. Switch instantly.

Tauri-Powered

Rust (Tauri) + Vue 3. ~10 MB bundle, < 2 s launch time. No Electron overhead.

Get started in 30 seconds

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install --cask platzhersh/openehr-explorer/openehr-explorer

Not yet notarized by Apple — on first launch, run xattr -cr "/Applications/openEHR Explorer.app" if macOS reports the app as damaged.

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macOS: not yet notarized by Apple — if Gatekeeper reports the app as damaged on first launch, see Troubleshooting.

Windows (Scoop)

scoop bucket add openehr-explorer https://github.com/platzhersh/scoop-openehr-explorerscoop install openehr-explorer

Not yet Authenticode-signed — Windows SmartScreen may warn on first launch; click “More info” → “Run anyway”. winget support is planned.

Linux (apt)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platzhersh/apt-openehr-explorer/main/openehr-explorer.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/openehr-explorer.gpgecho "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openehr-explorer.gpg] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platzhersh/apt-openehr-explorer/main stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openehr-explorer.listsudo apt update && sudo apt install open-ehr-explorer

Debian/Ubuntu (amd64) — future releases arrive via apt upgrade. Prefer a one-off install or another distro? Grab the .deb/.AppImage directly — see Installation.

Part of the openEHR developer tooling ecosystem — alongside oehrpy (Python SDK) and Open CIS (reference clinical app). No runtime dependency between them — use any combination.

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