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Governments and openEHR

The following  table indicates use or interest in openEHR known to the openEHR board. Other governments may be using it. If any government or other jurisdictional entity wants to be added to this list please contact us, since it enables potential users to find out more about openEHR from a user perspective.

Country

Entity

Usage

Contacts

Australia

NeHTA (National e-Health Transition Authority)

Clinical data groups based on openEHR methodology. Investigation of transformation from openEHR to CDA in progress.

Queensland Health

An openEHR-based repository has been running at Qld Health for about 3 years, managing discharge summaries.

Victoria Health

Various projects including the state cancer registry are using or will use openEHR.

Brazil

Ministry of Health / various govt agencies

In Brazil some Health Informatics companies are learning and developing archetype-based systems, as they reckon the value of archetypes for representing health knowledge. Also, some of the Brazilian Government Agencies intend to embody archetypes as part of their technological arsenal, as is the case of the Brazilian Suplementary Health Agency (ANS), responsible for regulating the Health Plan market. The Technical Committee on Health Informatics of the Brazilian Standards Association (ABNT) now a "P" member of ISO, has recently joined the work that can eventually lead to archetypes becoming an ISO standard.

Beatriz de Faria Leão

Brazilian Agency for Supplementary Health

State University of Rio de Janeiro

The Brazilian Agency for Supplementary Health established a national standard to support the exchange of information among health providers and health care insurance companies. This standard, called (TISS in portuguese), was conceived as a traditional message exchange standard. This project aims at designing archetypes that could be used to carry all information represented in TISS. It also aims at implementing a prototype software that will use openEHR reference model to exchange TISS information. This proof of concept will show an alternative way of implementing TISS that could be more effective in dealing with the standard evolution.

Rigoleta Dutra

Sergio Miranda Freire

Chile

Ministry of Health

Interest in openEHR as basis for EHR communication, interest from some providers.

Denmark

Connected Digital Health in Denmark

National proof-of-concept project.

Knut Bernstein

Various Danish regions

Evaluation of archetype methodology in progress.

Netherlands

TNO (national
research agency)

TNO is actively using openEHR archetypes and templates in a diabetic management project. A number of companies are evaluating the approach with a view to implementation.

Roel Stap

Singapore

Ministry of Health

Invited presentation by openEHR to government, 2007.

Peter Tan

Slovakia

Ministry of Health

Invited presentation by openEHR to government, 2007.

Mike Popper

Slovenia

Ministry of Health

Invited presentation by openEHR to government, 2007.

Sweden

Skåne Region

Invited presentation by openEHR, 2006 - ongoing interest in archetype methodology. Interest from some vendors.

Per-Arne Lundgren

UK

National Health
Service (NHS)
Connecting for
Health (CFH)

The NHS has developed and used openEHR archetypes and templates as a formal way of capturing clinical content requirements. In a pilot in Q1&2 2007, around 220 archetypes and 40 templates were developed in the maternity and emergency department (ED) specialties.

Laura Sato

Scotland

Scotland have nearly finished the Phase 1 evaluation of the use of archetypes for clinical content specifications and are planning phase 2.

Lee Davies

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