Category Archives: openehr

Why NPfIT failed

Posted on 28/10/2018 by wolandscat

Below is my list of reasons why I think NPfIT failed. NPfIT was the NHS National Programme for IT in health, starting in 2002, with Richard Grainger appointed as NHS IT director. A timeline is published here. NPfIT is generally … Continue reading →

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Services Landscape for e-Health

Posted on 23/10/2018 by wolandscat

Every so often I get bored of what I am doing and start trying to draw one of those ‘services roadmap’ kind of diagrams for e-Health. These pretty pictures appear in slide presentations, standards, whitepapers etc, but are not often … Continue reading →

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FHIR v openEHR – concreta

Posted on 10/10/2018 by wolandscat

Some readers may have read my previous post FHIR compared to openEHR. If not, I recommend you do, it is available in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese as well as English. Here I aim to clarify some of the concrete differences … Continue reading →

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Why the platform will replace today’s interoperability standards in healthcare

Posted on 21/07/2018 by wolandscat

For decades, most of us working in health informatics and e-health have lived on the assumption that ‘interoperability’ is one of the main things we are trying to achieve, and that it is the most important because the lack of … Continue reading →

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openEHR Basic Meta-Model (BMM) and syntax major upgrade

Posted on 16/07/2018 by wolandscat

The openEHR Basic Meta-Model (BMM) that has been in use in some form for nearly 10 years now was recently upgraded to version 3.0.0 (from 2.x), with the persistence format (now called P_BMM) being backwards-compatibly upgraded to version 2.3. The … Continue reading →

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Major German research project chooses openEHR

Posted on 20/06/2018 by wolandscat

I just returned from Heidelberg, where another very successful ‘openEHR day’ was held, this time by the HiGHmed research consortium, with 100 attendees. HiGHmed is funded with 20m€ by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the … Continue reading →

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openEHR REST API 0.9.0 out for comment

Posted on 31/01/2018 by wolandscat

The REST API Team (Bostjan Lah, Erik Sundvall, Sebastian Iancu, Heath Frankel, Pablo Pazos, and others on the openEHR SEC and elsewhere) have made a 0.9.0 Release of the openEHR ITS (Implementation Technology Specifications) component, in order to make a pre-1.0.0 release … Continue reading →

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The open e-health platform, coming to an economy near you

Posted on 18/11/2017 by wolandscat

I’ve been silent for a while, but luckily an excellent paper on one of my favourite topics – the open platform for e-health has appeared. It comes from the Apperta Foundation, and is called “Defining an Open Platform”; you can get … Continue reading →

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openEHR Task Planning – heading for implementation

Posted on 22/10/2017 by wolandscat

We’ve made a lot of progress since my last post on this topic. We have published a 1.0.0 version of the openEHR Task Planning specification, which will go into implementation immediately in the City of Moscow e-health project. The current … Continue reading →

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openEHR Task Planning – progress update

Posted on 06/07/2017 by wolandscat

In openEHR, we’ve neatly sidestepped the issue of ‘workflow’ by using the term  task planning, which I think better corresponds to the scope we think we can manage. If we were to say we were writing a specification for workflow, … Continue reading →

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