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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

  • Update from the openEHR Board Chairman - D.Ingram
    18/12/09 14:55:03
    I have today posted  an update on progress of the openEHR Foundation over the past year on the web site. This is both a report from the Board and some personal reflections on the stage it has reached and the inevitable growing pains it is experiencing. I would like to say thank you to everyone w...
    Thomas Beale
  • IHTSDO and openEHR Begin Collaborative Work Programme
    14/09/09 12:08:43
    Organizations will explore how clinical terminologies and archetype-based record structures can best be aligned to support electronic health records. September 15, 2009 – IHTSDO and the openEHR Foundation are to work together on a harmonisation project where the overall goal is the practical de...
    Thomas Beale
  • OSHIP gets CLIPS decision support engine
    27/08/09 16:28:53
    The Open Source Health Information Platform (OSHIP) has integrated the “gold standard” forward chaining inference engine CLIPS in order to support complex decision support requirements. OSHIP is based on the Python reference implementation of the openEHR specifications; adding proven open source...
    Thomas Beale
  • openEHR in £1.1m Wellcome Trust Sintero project
    09/07/09 18:37:03
    The openEHR health computing platform will be used as the basis of the core clinical repository for the Sintero project (http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/newsandevents/wellcome.html), funded by a £1.1m grant from the Wellcome Trust. The central aim of Sintero is to provide a reliable means of solving a ke...
    Thomas Beale
  • 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

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