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
Brazil	Brazilian Agency for Supplementary Health State University of Rio de Janeiro	The Brazilian Agency for Supplementary Health (ANS) 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
Denmark	Various Danish regions	Evaluation of archetype methodology in progress 2008/9.
Netherlands	TNO (national research agency)	TNO is 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	Adoption of openEHR 2009 for clinical modelling, terminology.	Peter Tan
Slovakia	Ministry of Health	Invited presentation by openEHR to government, 2007. MoH €32m contract awarded to consortium using openEHR in 2010. National CKM established in 2012.	Michael Danilak
Slovenia	Ministry of Health	Invited presentation by openEHR to government, 2007, 2010, 2011.
Sweden	Sveriges Kommuner ock Landsting (Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions)	Adoption of openEHR 2009. The Swedish government has decided on the use of ISO 13606 as a base standard for national health data communication. openEHR will be used to define clinical models, terminology integration, and to implement 13606 in some contexts.	Inger Wejerfelt
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. By end 2008, the number of archetypes was around 1000.	Laura Sato
UK	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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