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Important news from openEHR
openEHR is pleased to announce the establishment of the
openEHR Clinical Review Board. Its founding members are Dr Sam
Heard, Professor Evelyn Hovenga, Dr Dipak Kalra (Chairman), Dr Alain
Maskens, Professor Alan Rector, and Professor Martin Severs. All have
outstanding knowledge and long experience of the interactions between
clinical practice, clinical data quality and standards, and electronic
health care records.
This development underlines the importance that the Foundation places on
clinical applicability, effectiveness and safety as determinants of open
electronic health record architecture. The Clinical Review Board will
work in close synergy with the Architecture Review Board, chaired by Tom
Beale. The Terms of Reference of the ARB are on the website at
http://www.openehr.org/about_openehr/t_ARB_TOR.htm
. The terms of reference of the CRB will be published in the New Year.
A Progress Report for 2005, from the Foundation Board, is also now available on the web site at
http://www.openehr.org/about_openehr/t_board_report_2005.htm. This summarises achievements to date, provides additional perspective on current issues and priorities, and sets out key aims for the coming year.
As the report discusses, it has been a busy and eventful year for many members of
openEHR. The immediate priority is the planned publication of Release 1.0 of the
openEHR Architecture on February 1st, 2006. This will be a landmark event and is the result of long-term planning to stabilise the Architecture and incorporate the relevant semantics of existing health information standards. This will, we hope, be of assistance to software developers, who need a stable base architecture from which to develop systems. It will also prepare the way for the focus of the Foundation to switch more fully onto clinical application, education and governance issues arising in deploying
openEHR archetype methodology within future health care information infrastructures.
openEHR is now at a crucial stage of its development. It aims to remain as small, simply constructed and tightly bounded as possible, hoping, thereby, to remain able to promote and facilitate the most effective and widescale use possible of the practical insights, methods and tools that are developed within the
openEHR community.
Finally, we are pleased to announce that Sam will now be Deputy Chairman of the Foundation Board. We hope to have further announcements, early in 2006, on our progress in establishing a group of international advisors to the Foundation.
With our thanks and appreciation of your support and interest in the Foundation.
Professor David Ingram, Dr Sam Heard, Dr Dipak Kalra
David Ingram, Professor of Health Informatics, Tel. 020 7288 5965
CHIME, University College London, Fax. 020 7288 3322
Archway Campus, Highgate Hill, London N19 3UA
http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk