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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

  • openEHR / IHTSDO explore IP integration, governance, SNOMED archetypes
    01/09/10 11:24:05
    At a meeting at the end of last week, in London, the following was agreed as a joint announcement to our respective communities. 'The openEHR Foundation core team held a two-day meeting with senior representatives of the IHTSDO on August 26th-27th, in London. This was to continue the very constr...
    Thomas Beale
  • New ADL 1.5 Workbench beta released
    11/08/10 13:53:37
    A new beta of the ADL Workbench (AWB) has been published. This version of the tool has been greatly improved from previous versions and has many new features. It also implements most of the ADL / AOM 1.5 draft specifications, which completely replace the ADL and AOM 1.4 vintage. Note that the ne...
    Thomas Beale
  • progress on openEHR IP, SNOMED CT, IHTSDO collaboration
    05/07/10 13:31:30
    There have been recent additional suggestions posted on the openEHR wiki in response to the consultation about future licensing arrangements for openEHR IP, as part of the Foundation’s policy and aim of transferring it under suitable and sustainable international governance. The context of this ...
    Thomas Beale
  • Board announcement - openEHR IP License Revision Proposal
    15/04/10 09:33:57
    Practical engagement with openEHR continues to grow, apace. Over recent months, the Foundation has begun to address a number of key issues and concerns arising within the wide international community of users of the specifications, as follows: 1. Licensing of the openEHR Specifications and Docum...
    Thomas Beale
  • David Ingram interview with talkstandards
    25/02/10 09:44:10
    In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. See http://www.talkstandards.com/best-approach-to-ehealth-standardization-is-learning-by-doing/
    Thomas Beale

Events

  • MedInfo 2010, 12-15 Sep, Cape Town South Africa
    12/09/10 00:00:00 - 15/09/10 00:00:00
    MedInfo 2010 this year takes place in Cape Town, South Africa. The openEHR-related activities include a clinical modelling workshop and various presentations. See here for details.
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