“IHTSDO and the openEHR Foundation are to work together on a harmonisation project where the overall goal is the practical development of effective and sustainable clinical content for the electronic health record. The project will explore how best to support those who wish to use openEHRâ„¢ archetypes and SNOMED CTâ„¢ terminology together within current and future systems to support data capture, complex queries, clinical decision support and reporting.
This initiative arose from an intergovernmental workshop with high-level industry representation held in Helsingør, Denmark in November 2008, where the openEHR Foundation and the IHTSDO were invited to present their perspectives on how health informatics standards could best interact and contribute to meeting the common needs of large-scale health information infrastructure initiatives, worldwide. In response to this call for leadership and wider consultation, IHTSDO and openEHR have resolved to identify opportunities to align efforts to address the practical implementation and evaluation challenges facing national eHealth programs, in a coordinated way.”
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OpenEHR.org, 15 September 2009
