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OpenEHR is a virtual community working on interoperability and computability in e-health. Its main focus is electronic patient records (EHRs) and systems. In other words, we could think openEHR as the open source health equivalent of the iPod/iPhone platform – a technical framework which will allow any compatible application, organization or provider to share ‘plug and play’ access to standardized data. This is openEHR’s innovation – the focus on ensuring that the underlying health data is correct, robust and trustworthy.

A recent study stated that openEHR and the recent international standard (ISO 13606) defined a model driven software development methodology for health information systems. Since health information distributed to different independent systems that may not be compatible, the solution is to transform OpenEHR archetypes into ISO/EN 13606 and vice versa by combining Semantic Web and Model-driven Engineering technologies. As one of the most promising modeling efforts in the EHR system, Detailed Clinical Model (DCM) is proposed to transform its concepts into ISO/EN 13606/openEHR Archetypes or HL7 models as well. Therefore, clinical information distributed among several independent systems could be accessed by professional clinicians.

The openEHR Foundation will continue to proceed based on its usual key activity, which is implementation.