Industry News


Brazil re-affirms commitment to openEHR
16-05-2012
As part of operationalising chapter III of the government decree, a national EHR Workshop was held aimed at defining methods and standards to be used in the Brazilian EHR Project (RES-National). The conclusions were largely underpinned by openEHR.


Web-based openEHR ambulatory care EHR system deployed in Brazil
15-02-2012
P2D, Brazil, deploys web-based ambulantory care EHR to around 3,000 health professionals including doctors, physiotherapists, nurses and receptionists (primarily Brazilian College of Ophthalmologists).


CIMI goes with Archetypes & UML profile
14-12-2011
The Clinical Information Modeling Initiative is an international collaboration that is dedicated to providing a common format for detailed specifications for the representation of health information content so that semantically interoperable information may be created and shared in health records.


Brazil chooses openEHR for EHR at all levels of government
06-01-2011
Brazil has chosen to use openEHR and archetypes for the shareable EHR at three levels of government - federal, state and municipal.


IHTSDO and openEHR Begin Collaborative Work Programme
15-09-2009
Organizations will explore how clinical terminologies and archetype-based record structures can best be aligned to support electronic health records.


openEHR in £1.1m Wellcome Trust Sintero project
09-07-2009
The openEHR health computing platform will be used as the basis of the core clinical repository for the Sintero project funded by a £1.1m grant from the Wellcome Trust.


Microsoft Connected Health Framework (CHF) uses archetypes
20-04-2009
The latest edition of Microsoft's Connected Health Framework - a strategy based on the idea of 'knowledge-driven health' - includes openEHR (ISO 13606-2) archetypes as part of its domain knowledge architecture.


Vivici announce PHR
28-10-2007
Vivici of the Netherlands announce their personal health record based on openEHR.