OpenEHR

openEHR is an open standard specification in health informatics that describes the management and storage, retrieval and exchange of health data in electronic health records (EHRs). In openEHR, all health data for a person is stored in a "one lifetime", vendor-independent, person-centred EHR. The openEHR specifications include an EHR Extract specification[1] but are otherwise not primarily concerned with the exchange of data between EHR-systems as this is the focus of other standards such as EN 13606 and HL7.

The openEHR specifications are maintained by the openEHR Foundation, a not for profit foundation supporting the open research, development, and implementation of openEHR EHRs. The specifications are based on a combination of 15 years of European and Australian research and development into EHRs and new paradigms, including what has become known as the archetype methodology[2][3] for specification of content.

The openEHR specifications[4] include information and service models for the EHR, demographics, clinical workflow and archetypes. They are designed to be the basis of a medico-legally sound, distributed, versioned EHR infrastructure.

  1. ^ Specifications Editorial Committee. "openEHR EHR Extract IM". openEHR Foundation. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  2. ^ Beale T (2002). "Archetypes: Constraint-based Domain Models for Future-proof Information Systems" (PDF). Proceedings of the 11th OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioural Semantics. (PDF)
  3. ^ Heard, S.; Beale, T., eds. (2007). "openEHR Architecture Overview" (PDF). openEHR Foundation. Retrieved 9 April 2013. (PDF)
  4. ^ openEHR Specification Program. "openEHR Specifications". openEHR Foundation. Retrieved 3 November 2015.