Seeking views on proposed openEHR Governance changes
openEHR News | Jan. 5, 2017, 8:44 a.m.
The openEHR Foundation Board of Governors and its elected Management Board, seek your views on plans we have been developing together, to further support and enhance openEHR as a self-governing and legally and financially accountable community.
The openEHR Foundation was established in 2002 and operated since then as part of the health informatics academic mission of UCL. Two years ago a Management Board was established based on a model of subscribing members and industry partner organisations with voting rights, and with delegated authority to run openEHR operations, with minimal overview from the Foundation Board of Governors.
Over the past year, the Board of Governors has convened a small working group, to work with the Management Board and draw up a blueprint for further steps towards community governance of openEHR.
The outline of the proposal is that the current Management Board evolves into a formal not-for-profit organisation and will sit alongside UCL as a member organisation of the openEHR Foundation.
This new not-for-profit would undertake all of current responsibilities of the current Management Board, but also include the current trading arrangements and legal accountability of the Foundation.
The Foundation will from then on solely concern itself with protection of openEHR IP and cease to be a trading entity. In accordance with the founding principles of the Foundation, you can be assured that openEHR IP will continue to be rigorously protected and continue to be openly and freely available.
The new arrangement will be kept under review over its first two years and any further changes deemed desirable or necessary will be consulted on at that stage.
The Document that sets out the background and proposal in more detail is available to VIEW HERE
Our aim is to institute the changes before the end of the current financial year, which is March 30th 2017.
Many thanks to you all,
David Ingram and Ian McNicoll
openEHR Board of Governors / Management Board
We have already given subscribing members an opportunity to review these proposals but are keen to get broader community feedback.
The openEHR Foundation was established in 2002 and operated since then as part of the health informatics academic mission of UCL. Two years ago a Management Board was established based on a model of subscribing members and industry partner organisations with voting rights, and with delegated authority to run openEHR operations, with minimal overview from the Foundation Board of Governors.
Over the past year, the Board of Governors has convened a small working group, to work with the Management Board and draw up a blueprint for further steps towards community governance of openEHR.
The outline of the proposal is that the current Management Board evolves into a formal not-for-profit organisation and will sit alongside UCL as a member organisation of the openEHR Foundation.
This new not-for-profit would undertake all of current responsibilities of the current Management Board, but also include the current trading arrangements and legal accountability of the Foundation.
The Foundation will from then on solely concern itself with protection of openEHR IP and cease to be a trading entity. In accordance with the founding principles of the Foundation, you can be assured that openEHR IP will continue to be rigorously protected and continue to be openly and freely available.
The new arrangement will be kept under review over its first two years and any further changes deemed desirable or necessary will be consulted on at that stage.
The Document that sets out the background and proposal in more detail is available to VIEW HERE
Our aim is to institute the changes before the end of the current financial year, which is March 30th 2017.
Please feedback any comments via comms@openehr.org
Many thanks to you all,
David Ingram and Ian McNicoll
openEHR Board of Governors / Management Board
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