Re: Interoperability with HL7

[Gerard Freriks <gfrer@luna.nl>]

Bert,

There is only one answer.

Hospitals we talk with have problems with the way  IP is handled by openEHR.

IP owned by two organisations (One UCL and the other Ocean Informatics) they consider not PUBLIC.

I agree that the form of the company is not the issue.

What is important who controls the IP.

All Archetypes/Templates/ DCM's must be in the public domain, as is language, as is HL7 CDA, as is EN13606, as are ISO standards, XML, etc, etc.

Gerard

On 10 feb 2010, at 14:07, Bert Verhees wrote:

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 problems, well maintained in a formal, 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)

It is not the juridical status of a company that makes the difference for the IP-status of something. If an organization is not-for-profit or for-profit, both can issue all kinds of IP-licenses.
The company form has nothing to do with the licenses it issues

Bert
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