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openEHR Release 1.0.1

Release 1.0.1, the corrective release to Release 1.0, coming after 14 months of testings

Apr 20, 2007 06:40 GMT  ·  By
The openEHR Health Computing Platform
   The openEHR Health Computing Platform

The corrected and improved openEHR Release 1.x platform, Release 1.0.1, comes after 14 months of testing and implementation, with a foundation for systems and tools for the development of clinical models, including openEHR archetypes, templates and terminology subsets, forming the "openEHR Health Computing Platform". Tim Cook, Chairman of the Architecture Review Board of the Foundation, states:

" We believe Release 1.0.1 to be a stable base for ongoing implementation and forthcoming specifications, including the Template Model, EHR Extract, Security, Archetype Query Language, CEN EN13606 integration and services (in cooperation with the HL7/OMG HSSP project)."

New pieces of the health computing platform are estimated to fall into place during the next months:

- the Template Object Model - a standardized object model of openEHR templates, along with a dADL and XML syntax specification - the openEHR EHR Extract specification - a model of Extracts for use with openEHR and other systems - a security model - a query language for archetyped data (temporary called 'AQL') - standardized service and programming interfaces for the EHR and related services, including the "virtual EHR"

According to the Chairman of the Architecture Review Board of the Foundation, this release of openEHR will not suffer significant core platform changes in the future, the further releases coming rather with additions than changes and any change will be made according to proposals coming from the implementers.

About openEHR

The openEHR Foundation is a non-profit foundation that supports the open research, development, and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). openEHR' s specifications include information and service models for the EHR, demographics, clinical workflow, archetypes, and are designed to be the basis of a medico-legally sound, distributed, versioned EHR infrastructure. Fixing the typographical errors from Release 1.0, Release 1.0.1 includes significant improvements in the documentation and it is said to have had almost 50 Change Requests.