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Welcome to openEHR

openEHR is about enabling ICT to effectively support healthcare, medical research and related areas. Today ICT is used ubiquitously elsewhere, but is far from effective in Healthcare. The main problem in health is the lack of shareable and computable information.

The principal challenge for health ICT is to represent the semantics of the sector, which are far more complex than in other industries. Doing this requires a knowledge-oriented computing framework that includes ontologies, terminology and a semantically enabled health computing platform in which complex meaning can be represented and shared. At the same time it must support the economically viable construction of maintainable and adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records (EHRs).

Technically, openEHR is about creating specifications, open source software and tools for such a platform. In the clinical space, it is about creating high-quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process - known as archetypes - along with formal interfaces to terminology.

News

  • Opereffa - a reference application for openEHR - initial release
    10/06/09 09:09:18
    The openEHR Foundation is pleased to announce the early release of Opereffa – openEHR REFerence Framework and Application, under development at UCL.  As healthcare systems are under increasing pressure, internationally, they are exploring improvements in health information systems, as a key way ...
    Thomas Beale
  • svn.openehr.org turned off; use www.openehr.org/svn
    01/05/09 16:51:00
    The old URL http://svn.openehr.org has been turned off. If you have an error when doing an SVN operation on a local repository, check if this is the initial part of the URL. If it is, do a Subversion 'relocate' operation - in TortoiseSVN, this is very easy - right click on the repository root > ...
    Thomas Beale
  • Microsoft Connected Health Framework (CHF) uses archetypes
    20/04/09 17:03:19
    The latest edition of Microsoft's Connected Health Framework - a strategy based on the idea of 'knowledge-driven health' (see http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/technology/HealthFramework.mspx) - includes openEHR (ISO 13606-2) archetypes as part of its domain knowledge architecture. Th...
    Thomas Beale
  • Clinical Knowledge Manager goes live
    04/04/09 17:51:20
    The openEHR Foundation is pleased to announce the public availability of its Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) web portal (http://www.openEHR.org/knowledge). Professor David Ingram, of University College London and Chair of the openEHR Foundation Board explains "At this time of unprecedented inte...
    Thomas Beale
  • New ADL Workbench release supports RM validation
    22/03/09 22:05:32
    A new version of the ADL Workbench ('AWB') based on the latest ADL / AOM 1.5 draft specifications has been released. This release includes Reference Model checking and visualisation, i.e. validation of archetypes against a machine representation of the openEHR reference model, and numerous impro...
    Thomas Beale

Events

  • openEHR at International Free Software Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 24-27 June 2009
    24/06/09 10:00:00 - 27/06/09 17:00:00
    Tim Cook has been selected as an invited lecturer at the 10th Edition of International Free Software Forum or fisl10 [1], to be held at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-RS), from June 24th to 27th, 2009, in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. This event attracts more than 7,000 free and o...
  • PatientOS openEHR demo at virtual HIMSS - June 9,10
    09/06/09 00:00:00 - 10/06/09 22:30:00
    PatientOS Inc. will be demonstrating with a live system which users can log into, the interoperability between two distinct systems using openEHR Archetypes. You can see and experience a live, hands on demo at the HIMSS Virtual Conference June 9-10. The demo will include 1) Provide a live Physic...
  • openEHR+SNOMED CT training course, London 29,30 September
    29/09/08 00:00:00 - 30/09/08 00:00:00
    The CHIME department, University College London, is hosting a 2-day training course on openEHR and SNOMED CT at the Whittington campus, Archway London on 29 and 30 September. See http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/news/latest/news-20080804a.htm
  • Python/openEHR workshop, XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    20/09/08 00:00:00 - 21/09/08 00:00:00
    There will be a 1.5 day workshop on openEHR using the Python implementation (aka. OSHIP) at the XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in Porto Alegre, Brazil http://www.epi2008.com.br/ingles/index.php on 20 & 21 September, 2008. The workshop registration link is at: http://www.epi2008.com.br...
  • OSHIP/openEHR workshop, Brazil, 21 Jul - 1 Aug 2008
    21/07/08 00:00:00 - 01/08/08 00:00:00
    The International Workshop on Open Source Health Informatics Projects is an initiative from National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, the coordinator of MACC-Rio Network, and Brazilian Health Informatics Society – Rio de Janeiro State Branch and it will be executed by an international partne...
  • IHTSDO 2008 Summer Conference - 29 June - 4 July UK
    29/06/08 00:00:00 - 04/07/08 00:00:00
    The IHTSDO 2008 Summer Conference: Community of Practice Meetings is at Birmingham NEC from 29 June to 4 July. This six-day international working conference is being hosted by NHS Connecting for Health to bring together IHTSDO's working group and project group members and members of National Rel...
  • Implementing SNOMED CT 10-11 June London UK
    10/06/08 00:00:00 - 11/06/08 00:00:00
    This is a practical conference concerned with how todesign, implement, deploy, migrate, support and evolve computer applications that use SNOMED CT. It is aimed primarily at healthcare IT professionals working with suppliers and healthcare organisations involved in the practicalities of implemen...
  • MIE 2008 Göteborg, Sweden 25-28 May
    26/05/08 00:00:00 - 28/05/08 00:00:00
    Various openEHR-related events are occurring at MIE 2008, this year at Göteborg, Sweden. A number of papers relating to archetypes and associated terminology issues are on the programme, as well as two openEHR-related tutorials.
  • Launch of new openEHR website
    31/10/07 10:00:00 - 01/11/07 00:00:00
    The new openEHR website is about to be launched.
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