Re: Interoperability with HL7

[Gerard Freriks <gfrer@luna.nl>]

Dear Stef,

It is simple.

Customers demand Archetypes that are completely free ti use in a commercial product.

All openEHR artifacts have an IP owned by a a not-for-profit company with two owners.

For academic use it is free. But for commercial use things are not free.

Archetypes/Templates and Detailed Clinical Models must be completely public, owned democratically by all.

The present situation is not good for business at all.

I'm as a fervent supporter of the ideas behind EN13606 as ever.

We need requirements for DCM's (and Archetypes) that go beyond the present ones.

With regards,

Gerard

On 10 feb 2010, at 13:05, Stef Verlinden wrote:

Op 10 feb 2010, om 11:37 heeft Gerard Freriks het volgende geschreven:

It is imperative that DCM's are absolutely free to use and in the public domain. CEN/ISO and ANSI assure that with the standardisation IP rules in general.

DCM's must be absolutely free from IP p! roblems, al, flexible, organisation, owned and controlled by all that use them.

OpenEHR as we know it today is a private company. (See under Status: http://www.openehr.org/about/foundation.html)

Hi Gerard,

What has happened? For years and years you have been the initiator of many disputes between 13606/openEHR and HL7 and! now all to have become the 'enemy'. 

OpenEHR is a not-for profit organisation and it's knowlegde is in the open domain. If you had Googled around a litte bit you could have found the following:

Gerard Freriks

+31 620347088

gfrer@luna.nl

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