News Archive
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11/02/12 16:13:15openEHR 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...
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29/01/12 23:40:54CIMI 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...
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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...
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02/11/11 01:22:41Message 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...
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09/09/11 01:01:28A 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 ...
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05/09/11 01:54:16From Dr Sam Heard. I am writing on behalf of the new Transitional Board of openEHR to share our plans to take openEHR to a new level of operations; a new structure, business model and governance. Our vision is the creation of a thriving community that works collaboratively to benefit humanity th...
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10/08/11 23:49:38from David Ingram, chair of the openEHR Foundation board, professor of health informatics at University College London, Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education. A Personal Message to the openEHR Community I wrote here some time ago of my forthcoming retirement and our wi...
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04/03/11 13:28:25The 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...
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14/01/11 09:05:10The 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...
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06/01/11 13:03:02Brazil has chosen to use openEHR and archetypes for the shareable EHR at three levels of government - federal, state and municipal. The details: on December 16 2010, at the 8th ordinary meeting of the Brazilian Tripartite Commission (CTI), a draft Ministerial Order establishing the standards ...
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21/12/10 16:25:35At its October meeting in Toronto, the General Assembly of the IHTSDO received and discussed a proposal, submitted by its Management Board, to support, develop and maintain the IP in openEHR, within a broader framework of IHTSDO governance for clinical content of the electronic health record. IH...
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21/12/10 00:56:27A 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...
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01/12/10 13:32:27At the end of August, the Foundation Board posted an announcement about progress of discussions with IHTSDO concerning governance of archetypes and SNOMED terminology, expecting to be in a position to report back by mid-October. We have been working along the lines set out in previous announceme...
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28/09/10 14:40:40A 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...
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01/09/10 11:24:05At a meeting at the end of last week, in London, the following was agreed as a joint announcement to our respective communities. 'The openEHR Foundation core team held a two-day meeting with senior representatives of the IHTSDO on August 26th-27th, in London. This was to continue the very constr...
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11/08/10 13:53:37A new beta of the ADL Workbench (AWB) has been published. This version of the tool has been greatly improved from previous versions and has many new features. It also implements most of the ADL / AOM 1.5 draft specifications, which completely replace the ADL and AOM 1.4 vintage. Note that the ne...
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05/07/10 13:31:30There have been recent additional suggestions posted on the openEHR wiki in response to the consultation about future licensing arrangements for openEHR IP, as part of the Foundation’s policy and aim of transferring it under suitable and sustainable international governance. The context of this ...
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15/04/10 09:33:57Practical engagement with openEHR continues to grow, apace. Over recent months, the Foundation has begun to address a number of key issues and concerns arising within the wide international community of users of the specifications, as follows: 1. Licensing of the openEHR Specifications and Docum...
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25/02/10 09:44:10In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. See http://www.talkstandards.com/best-approach-to-ehealth-standardization-is-learning-by-doing/
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18/12/09 14:55:03I 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...
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14/09/09 12:08:43Organizations 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...
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27/08/09 16:28:53The 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...
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09/07/09 18:37:03The 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...
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10/06/09 09:09:18The 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 ...
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01/05/09 16:51:00The old URL http://svn.openehr.org has been turned off. If you have an error when doing an SVN operation on a local repository, check if this is the initial part of the URL. If it is, do a Subversion 'relocate' operation - in TortoiseSVN, this is very easy - right click on the repository root > ...
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20/04/09 17:03:19The latest edition of Microsoft's Connected Health Framework - a strategy based on the idea of 'knowledge-driven health' (see http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/technology/HealthFramework.mspx) - includes openEHR (ISO 13606-2) archetypes as part of its domain knowledge architecture. Th...
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04/04/09 17:51:20The openEHR Foundation is pleased to announce the public availability of its Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) web portal (http://www.openEHR.org/knowledge). Professor David Ingram, of University College London and Chair of the openEHR Foundation Board explains "At this time of unprecedented inte...
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22/03/09 22:05:32A new version of the ADL Workbench ('AWB') based on the latest ADL / AOM 1.5 draft specifications has been released. This release includes Reference Model checking and visualisation, i.e. validation of archetypes against a machine representation of the openEHR reference model, and numerous impro...
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31/12/08 11:32:24The openEHR Foundation is pleased to announce Release 1.0.2 of the specifications. In what appears to be a strong sign of stability, only 15 Change Requests were needed, of which only 7 had any effect on the formal specifications, and no impact on existing schemas or data. Specification home pag...
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08/11/08 14:38:56Professor David Ingram (Head of CHIME, UCL, chair of openEHR Foundation) delivered an invited presentation at a workshop in Helsingor, Denmark, at the invitation of NHS Connecting for Health (CFH), Australia's National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) and Canada Health Infoway. See http://w...
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15/08/08 19:31:54from Prof David Ingram, head of CHIME, UCL and chair of openEHR: I am delighted to announce that Dr Tony Shannon has accepted an invitation, on behalf of the openEHR Foundation Board, to take over the chair of the Clinical Review Board. Tony has long experience and interest in clinical informati...
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06/06/08 17:16:04A new openEHR Decision Support mailing list has been created - openehr-decisionsupport@openEHR.org. openEHR has only a small number of lists outside of the specific programming language sub-communities, and each is broad, reflecting a belief in the interdisciplinary nature of things. The decisio...
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03/06/08 12:56:36This week an upload of code from Tim Cook marks the start of the openEHR Python project. This project aims to produce an open source implementation of openEHR in Python. Project page. Wiki page.
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05/05/08 14:15:34Akimihci Tatsukawa and Shinji Kobayashi of openEHR.jp announce the release of version 0.0.1 of a Ruby implementation of openEHR. "This release is experimental preview of our work based on openEHR specification release 1.0.1. We implemented ADL Parser and some archetype models and reference model...
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05/04/08 10:53:17Release 1.4.1 of the Archetype Workbench is now available - see the help page at http://www.openehr.org/svn/ref_impl_eiffel/TRUNK/apps/doc/adl_workbench_help.htm. This release includes some major new features: specialisation semantics are now 90% implemented. a new file extension is now in use ...
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10/12/07 21:11:25An article on openEHR in Australia's Pulse+IT magazine, by Heather Leslie, Nov 2007.
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28/10/07 21:45:40Vivici of the Netherlands announce their personal health record based on openEHR.
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22/10/07 13:36:04The lead group for archetype authoring has been formed - the Archetype Editorial Group. This group will work with Sebastian Garde to finalise the process for the authoring of archetypes and begin the ratification of all archetypes. The archetypes will then be stored in a web-based environment th...
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22/10/07 13:36:04Se ha formado el grupo principal para autoría de arquetipos - Grupo Editorial de Arquetipos. Este equipo trabajará con Sebastián Garde para finalizar el proceso de autoría de arquetipos y comenzar la ratificación de todos los arquetipos existentes. Luego, los arquetipos serán almacenados en un a...
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30/09/07 00:00:00Thomas Beale presented openEHR at the British Computer Society Primary Health Care Specialist Group conference in Oxford, 30th September 2007. See presentations page.
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28/08/07 00:00:00August 2007 - There were 14 papers, workshops and posters at MedInfo 2007 (openEHR MedInfo page). A video introducing openEHR for MedInfo participants featuring Prof David Ingram, chair of openEHR, was screened at the Tuesday drinks night sponsored by Ocean Informatics at the Storey Bridge Hotel...
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14/04/07 00:00:00The result of 14 months' review, implementation and testing, this release is a major milestone in health computing, correcting and improving the openEHR Release 1.x platform. Release 1.0.1 is a stable base for ongoing implementation and forthcoming specifications, including the Template Model, E...
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21/09/06 00:00:00On 21 September 2006 There has been some energetic discussion about openEHR and HL7 evolution on the openEHR Techncial List over recent weeks. David Ingram, Chair of the openEHR Foundation, has posted some thoughts on some of the issues raised.
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16/03/06 00:00:00On 16 March 2006 openEHR has released the UML diagrams of release 1.0 incorporating changes from the public comment period.
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01/08/05 00:00:00Release 0.96 of the openEHR specifications is published today. See the Specification project home page. (01 Aug 2005)
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23/03/05 00:00:00The ADL reference parser is now available in the form of the ADL workbench, ADL validator application, dotNet DLL and Java (jni) DLL. (23 Mar 2005)
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18/03/05 00:00:00The initial release of the java openEHR reference kernel is available. See the Java reference implementation home page. (18 Mar 2005)
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04/05/04 00:00:00The Foundation has formally appointed an openEHR Architectural Review Board (ARB), with 8 members, to review future changes proposed to openEHR specifications and software. (04 May 2004)
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04/05/04 00:00:00openEHR public materials have been moved to a web-accessible version control system called BitKeeper, enabling reliable access and collaborative development on software and documents. (04 May 2004)
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04/05/04 00:00:00Version 0.9 of the openEHR specifications have been published. See the Specification project home page. (04 May 2004)
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26/08/03 00:00:00There are now 256 members from 42 countries - so we are a veritable international group! Thank you for your participation. (26 Aug 2003)
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23/04/03 00:00:00The openEHR Foundation has been established as a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee. (23 Apr 2003)
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28/12/02 00:00:00At EuroRec 2002 in Berlin Ed Hammond gave a keynote presentation (1.3MB .ppt) on his future vision for the EHR. Many of us felt that this was a wonderful and thought-provoking view, and Ed has kindly allowed us to share it with the openEHR community here. (28 Dec 2002)
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13/11/02 00:00:00The vision of three-way collaboration between CEN, openEHR and HL7 on this effort was endorsed at a recent CEN TC/251 Joint Working Groups meeting in Paris. (13 Nov 2002)
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