The future of
digital health
is open
openEHR is a non‑profit organisation that publishes technical standards for an EHR platform, along with domain‑developed clinical models to define content. The principal architectural concepts include the lifelong, patient‑centric shared health record, future‑proof data and clinical process support.
Why use openEHR?
- Domain professionals – not IT developers – directly define the content and other semantics of implemented solutions.
- Rapid application development thanks to low-code tools.
- Interoperability is an automatic outcome of the platform architecture.
- The platform approach enables a component-oriented healthcare IT economy, for flexible and incremental procurement.
Our vision and mission
The openEHR Foundation vision is of a world in which healthcare routinely benefits from ICT, in particular:
- life-long, patient-centric EHRs (electronic health records)
- computable health data that fulfils its key role at the centre of professional health care practice, research and education
- a trusted balance of privacy for citizens and accountable, appropriate information sharing among caregivers.
At the heart of the openEHR mission is the construction of an open, vendor neutral platform for electronic health records and computable clinical and research data. The openEHR Foundation was established in 2003 in pursuit of this ambition. Its work has been framed and informed by three guiding principles: technical rigour, clinical engagement and trust. The platform consists of openly published technical specifications, clinical models, open source software, and educational resources.
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