News & Events


Interconnected Health 2012
30-03-2012
Interconnected Health 2012 will focus on approaches, challenges, and solutions affecting the ability to connect health organizations and systems, and the role of IT as an enabler in achieving this connectivity.


Web-based openEHR ambulatory care EHR system deployed in Brazil
15-02-2012
P2D, Brazil, deploys web-based ambulantory care EHR to around 3,000 health professionals including doctors, physiotherapists, nurses and receptionists (primarily Brazilian College of Ophthalmologists).


Interim board announces new openEHR Program groups
11-02-2012
The interim Board of Directors has now established 4 programs: Specifications, Software, Clinical Modelling and Localisation. Each Program has a Committee which will grow to up to 9 members and a list of Qualified Members to support each committee.


Creation of National Center for Archetypes in Bratislava
09-02-2012
A National Center for Archetypes (NCA STU), specialising in knowledge structures for Slovak e-health, has been launched, supported by the management of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (FEI STU).


CIMI Forum - 5th meeting
16-01-2012
CIMI held its 5th group meeting in San Antonio. Over 35 people attended in person with an additional 5 participants attending via WebEx.


CIMI goes with Archetypes & UML profile
14-12-2011
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 created and shared in health records.


Update on openEHR Governance
20-10-2011
The new Board of Directors has met on four occasions and set the new directions for the Foundation. Personal changes have occured in the Board. Formal IP assignments of all the openEHR assets including all archetypes have been completed.


ADL 1.5 Workbench - beta release 4
09-09-2011
A 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.


openEHR Transition Announcement
05-09-2011
A new Interim Board of openEHR has been created to take openEHR to a new level of operations; a new structure, business model and governance.


MIE 2011
24-08-2011
MIE 2011 is the 23rd International Conference of EFMI - the European Federation for Medical Informatics, and takes place in Oslo. The conference will cover various topics in the area of e-health, health informatics and telemedicine.


Message from the Chair of the openEHR Board
10-08-2011
A Personal Message to the openEHR Community. I wrote here some time ago of my forthcoming retirement and our wish and intention, as a Board, to pass the mantle of openEHR to the best possible new leadership and ownership, from October 1st.


First open source release of openEHR.NET
04-03-2011
The first release of openEHR.NET is available now. openEHR.NET is a C# implementation of the openEHR Reference Model and Archetype Model specifications, allowing developers to build openEHR applications by composing RM objects, validate against AM objects and serialise to/from XML.


ADL 1.5 Workbench - beta release 3
14-01-2011
The 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.


OpenEHR sessions at HL7
08-01-2011
Two openEHR sessions are scheduled at the next HL7 WGM in Sydney, both on Friday 14 January, the last day of the meeting.


Brazil chooses openEHR for EHR at all levels of government
06-01-2011
Brazil has chosen to use openEHR and archetypes for the shareable EHR at three levels of government - federal, state and municipal.


Achetype Editor 2.2 beta release
21-12-2010
A 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.


openEHR / IHTSDO Update from the Board
30-11-2010
At 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.


ADL 1.5 Workbench - beta release 2
28-09-2010
A 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 that contains test archetypes as well as the object model schemas used to drive the ADL Workbench.


MedInfo 2010
10-09-2010
MedInfo 2010 this year takes place in Cape Town, South Africa. The openEHR-related activities include a clinical modelling workshop and various presentations.


openEHR / IHTSDO explore IP integration, governance, SNOMED archetypes
31-08-2010
The openEHR Foundation core team held a two-day meeting with senior representatives of the IHTSDO. The meeting explored the potential for integration of the IP held by the openEHR Foundation and that of the IHTSDO under the governance arrangements, internationally, of the IHTSDO.