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Welcome to openEHR

openEHR is about enabling ICT to effectively support healthcare, medical research and related areas. Today ICT is used ubiquitously elsewhere, but is far from effective in Healthcare. The main problem in health is the lack of shareable and computable information.

The principal challenge for health ICT is to represent the semantics of the sector, which are far more complex than in other industries. Doing this requires a knowledge-oriented computing framework that includes ontologies, terminology and a semantically enabled health computing platform in which complex meaning can be represented and shared. At the same time it must support the economically viable construction of maintainable and adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records (EHRs).

The openEHR endeavour is about creating specifications, open source software and tools in the technical space for such a platform. In the clinical space, it is about creating high-quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process - known as archetypes - along with formal interfaces to terminology.

News

  • Dr Tony Shannon announced as new CRB chair
    15/08/08 19:31:54
    from Prof David Ingram, head of CHIME, UCL and chair of openEHR: I am delighted to announce that Dr Tony Shannon has accepted an invitation, on behalf of the openEHR Foundation Board, to take over the chair of the Clinical Review Board. Tony has long experience and interest in clinical informati...
    Thomas Beale
  • New openEHR Decision Support mailing list
    06/06/08 17:16:04
    A new openEHR Decision Support mailing list has been created - openehr-decisionsupport@openEHR.org. openEHR has only a small number of lists outside of the specific programming language sub-communities, and each is broad, reflecting a belief in the interdisciplinary nature of things. The decisio...
    Thomas Beale
  • openEHR Python Project Started
    03/06/08 12:56:36
    This week an upload of code from Tim Cook marks the start of the openEHR Python project. This project aims to produce an open source implementation of openEHR in Python. Project page. Wiki page.
    Thomas Beale
  • First openEHR Ruby implementation released
    05/05/08 14:15:34
    Akimihci Tatsukawa and Shinji Kobayashi of openEHR.jp announce the release of version 0.0.1 of a Ruby implementation of openEHR. "This release is experimental preview of our work based on openEHR specification release 1.0.1. We implemented ADL Parser and some archetype models and reference model...
    Thomas Beale
  • ADL Workbench 1.4.1 released
    05/04/08 10:53:17
    Release 1.4.1 of the Archetype Workbench is now available - see the help page at http://www.openehr.org/svn/ref_impl_eiffel/TRUNK/apps/doc/adl_workbench_help.htm. This release includes some major new features: specialisation semantics are now 90% implemented. a new file extension is now in use ...
    Thomas Beale

Events

  • openEHR+SNOMED CT training course, London 29,30 September
    29/09/08 00:00:00 - 30/09/08 00:00:00
    The CHIME department, University College London, is hosting a 2-day training course on openEHR and SNOMED CT at the Whittington campus, Archway London on 29 and 30 September. See http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/news/latest/news-20080804a.htm
  • Python/openEHR workshop, XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    20/09/08 00:00:00 - 21/09/08 00:00:00
    There will be a 1.5 day workshop on openEHR using the Python implementation (aka. OSHIP) at the XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in Porto Alegre, Brazil http://www.epi2008.com.br/ingles/index.php on 20 & 21 September, 2008. The workshop registration link is at: http://www.epi2008.com.br...
  • OSHIP/openEHR workshop, Brazil, 21 Jul - 1 Aug 2008
    21/07/08 00:00:00 - 01/08/08 00:00:00
    The International Workshop on Open Source Health Informatics Projects is an initiative from National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, the coordinator of MACC-Rio Network, and Brazilian Health Informatics Society – Rio de Janeiro State Branch and it will be executed by an international partne...
  • IHTSDO 2008 Summer Conference - 29 June - 4 July UK
    29/06/08 00:00:00 - 04/07/08 00:00:00
    The IHTSDO 2008 Summer Conference: Community of Practice Meetings is at Birmingham NEC from 29 June to 4 July. This six-day international working conference is being hosted by NHS Connecting for Health to bring together IHTSDO's working group and project group members and members of National Rel...
  • Implementing SNOMED CT 10-11 June London UK
    10/06/08 00:00:00 - 11/06/08 00:00:00
    This is a practical conference concerned with how todesign, implement, deploy, migrate, support and evolve computer applications that use SNOMED CT. It is aimed primarily at healthcare IT professionals working with suppliers and healthcare organisations involved in the practicalities of implemen...
  • MIE 2008 Göteborg, Sweden 25-28 May
    26/05/08 00:00:00 - 28/05/08 00:00:00
    Various openEHR-related events are occurring at MIE 2008, this year at Göteborg, Sweden. A number of papers relating to archetypes and associated terminology issues are on the programme, as well as two openEHR-related tutorials.
  • Launch of new openEHR website
    31/10/07 10:00:00 - 01/11/07 00:00:00
    The new openEHR website is about to be launched.
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