News & Events


openEHR standard, available tools for clinicians
19-04-2013
On Friday, 19. April, Ing. Pablo Pasoz Gutiérrez will give a talk at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, about openEHR. This will be transmitted and recorded online.


openEHR Primary Care project starts in Salvador, Brazil
15-03-2013
Gustavo M. Bacelar-Silva MD has launched a new project "openEHR-based pervasive health information system for primary care: First Brazilian Experience for Public Care" at SENAI - Cimatec (industrial college in Salvador).


Guideline Definition Language (GDL) first release
11-03-2013
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the design specifications of Guideline Definition Language (GDL) and its reference implementation under open source software licenses.


Professor Dipak Kalra becomes President of EuroRec
06-03-2013
In a slightly belated announcement, the Foundation would like to recognise that Professor Dipak Kalra MD, PhD, head of department at the UCL Center for Health Informatics and Multi-Professional Education (CHIME) and openEHR board member, took office as president of Eurorec.


CKM upgraded to include projects and other features
05-03-2013
A major new release of the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) went online today. This release is a major upgrade to CKM which provides improved 'governance units', and also gets closer to the ultimate goal of an end-to-end tool chain.


Archetype Editor 2.2.905 beta
27-02-2013
We are pleased to announce that Archetype Editor 2.2.905 beta has just been released. Find out more information on the tool page.


IBS and Moscow city to host second openEHR Workshop
28-01-2013
The second part of a series of seminars on the use of the international open standard medical management, storage and exchange of electronic medical records (openEHR) will be hosted in Moscow.


Erik Sundvall's EHR PhD thesis published online
27-01-2013
Erik Sundvall's PhD thesis entitled "Scalability and Semantic Sustainability in Electronic Health Record Systems" is now available online. It contains many openEHR-related papers and discussions.


Publications on openEHR and open source
17-01-2013
A special issue of the Canadian journal, Technology Innovation Management Review, has just been published and features open source software sustainability.


IBS consortium including three openEHR vendors to build Moscow eHealth
26-12-2012
A consortium led by IBS Moscow and including three openEHR vendors - Marand, Infinnity, and Ocean Informatics - has won the contract for the pilot of the Moscow city integrated medical information system.


openEHR Transition Update
12-12-2012
The Interim Board of the openEHR Foundation has largely agreed the basis for going forward based on the face-to-face meeting in London and feedback from a number of parties.


Northern Territory Health deploys Shared EHR
05-10-2012
Northern Territory Health has deployed a Shared Electronic Health Record system for over 50,000 remote indigenous people based on the Ocean Informatics EHR platform.


openEHR Foundation Meeting
12-09-2012
openEHR Foundation Strategic Planning Seminar had focused on discussion of the current state of openEHR in order to develop both short and long term strategies.


ADL - syntax highlight for Notepad++
13-08-2012
ADL syntax highlight for Notepad++ was developed by Armando Prieto from Venezuela.


Infection Control System deployed by Queensland Health
10-08-2012
Infection Control system, Multiprac, for 22 large hospitals in Queensland based on the Ocean OceanEHR platform has been inmplemented.


ADL 1.5 Workbench - beta release 8
02-08-2012
A new beta release of the ADL 1.5 Workbench is now available here. Release includes a complete makeover of the user interface, with numerous usability improvements, plus a number of compiler corrections.


HL7 Australia Seminar on Future HL7 Standards
30-06-2012
This HL7 Australia "Future of eHealth Standards" Seminar outlined the recent developments in the use of openEHR Archetypes in HL7, the FHIR work (an Aussie development that is taking the global HL7 community by storm) as well as the Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI).


openEHR @ HINZ | New Zeland
17-06-2012
Two days of strategic events on healthcare interoperability in June in New Zealand.


Brazil re-affirms commitment to openEHR
16-05-2012
As part of operationalising chapter III of the government decree, a national EHR Workshop was held aimed at defining methods and standards to be used in the Brazilian EHR Project (RES-National). The conclusions were largely underpinned by openEHR.


Board statement on Clinical Knowledge Manager
15-05-2012
What is Clinical Knowledge Manager? The Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) application is used by the openEHR Foundation to provide governance of archetypes, templates and terminology reference sets, and to facilitate discussions and communication about these assets within the openEHR community.