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Welcome to openEHR

The openEHR Foundation is currently undertaking a community consultation on a proposal for changed governance
feedback channels: wiki ; clinical and technical mailing lists

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

  • Brazil re-affirms commitment to openEHR
    16/05/12 13:38:32
    From: Brazil Ministry of health - Secretary of Participative management of SUS-DATASUS As part of operationalising chapter III of the government decree (Nº 2.073, DE 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2011), a national EHR Workshop was held aimed at defining methods and standards to be used in the Brazilian EHR Pr...
    Thomas Beale
  • Interim board announces new openEHR Program groups
    11/02/12 16:13:15
    openEHR is now being used in a range of environments and languages. Using it effectively has a steep learning curve but the benefits of having clinical content specified independent of the implementation environment or the format for sharing (web services, message etc) is beginning to make sense...
    Thomas Beale
  • CIMI forum - 5th meeting San Antionio
    29/01/12 23:40:54
    CIMI held its 5th group meeting in San Antonio from January 12 – 14, 2012. Over 35 people attended in person with an additional 5 participants attending via WebEx. At this meeting, the group: Established the criteria for membership and the process for adding members to the CIMI group Authorised...
    Thomas Beale
  • Clinical Information Modelling Initiative goes with Archetypes & UML profile
    14/12/11 09:36:34
    [press release from the CIMI group] The Clinical Information Modeling Initiative is an international collaboration that is dedicated to providing a common format for detailed specifications for the representation of health information content so that semantically interoperable information may be...
    Thomas Beale
  • Update on openEHR Governance
    02/11/11 01:22:41
    Message from the Board Chair, openEHR Foundation Sam Heard, 20/10/2011 I am writing having taken on the role of Chair of the Board for the openEHR Foundation. The new board has met on four occasions and I want to keep you informed of, and get your feedback on, the directions we are setting for t...
    Thomas Beale

Events

    Releases

    • ADL 1.5 Workbench - beta release 4
      09/09/11 01:01:28
      A new beta release of the ADL 1.5 Workbench is now available here. Quite a lot of new features have been added, as described in the release notes. Please note that this release only includes a Windows build; Linux and Mac builds will follow in the next couple of weeks. (I would be interested to ...
      Thomas Beale
    • First open source release of openEHR.NET available on codeplex
      04/03/11 13:28:25
      The first release of openEHR.NET is available at http://openehr.codeplex.com/.  openEHR.NET is a C# implementation of the openEHR Reference Model (RM) and Archetype Model (AM) specifications (Release 1.0.1), allowing developers to build openEHR applications by composing RM objects, validate agai...
      Thomas Beale
    • ADL 1.5 Workbench beta 3 released
      14/01/11 09:05:10
      The latest beta of the ADL 1.5 Workbench for Windows, Mac and Linux can now be downloaded from the help page. It includes significant UI improvements, and an implementation of annotations as recently discussed on the lists. Release notes here. As indicated in the online documentation, please re...
      Thomas Beale
    • Achetype Editor 2.2 beta release
      21/12/10 00:56:27
      A new beta release of the Archetype Editor is now available here. Bug fixes and enhancements are described in the release notes. Issues can be reported on the Problem Report tracker here. Thanks to Peter Gummer at Ocean Informatics for ongoing software support and creating the new openEHR instal...
      Thomas Beale
    • ADL 1.5 Workbench beta 2 release - regression testing now included
      28/09/10 14:40:40
      A second beta of the ADL/AOM 1.5 Workbench has been released. The main feature added is support for regression testing of archetypes. A new SVN repository has been added at http://www.openehr.org/svn/knowledge2/TRUNK/ that contains test archetypes as well as the object model schemas used to driv...
      Thomas Beale
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