IHTSDO and openEHR to partner

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and the openEHR Foundation have begun a collaborative program on developing clinical terminologies and archetype-based EHR structures.

IHTSDO and the openEHR Foundation will work on a harmonization project based on the practical development of effective and sustainable clinical content for the EHR, the groups said.

The project will explore how best to support those who wish to use openEHR archetypes and SNOMED CT terminology together within current and future systems to support data capture, complex queries, clinical decision support and reporting.

The initiative arose from an intergovernmental workshop, with industry representation, held in Helsingør, Denmark, in November 2008, which aimed to tackle health information infrastructure initiatives, worldwide.

In response to this call for leadership and wider consultation, IHTSDO and openEHR agreed to identify opportunities to align efforts to address the practical implementation and evaluation challenges facing national e-health programs, together.

The two groups say their work will be of immediate interest and relevance in countries where the use of clinical data archetypes and clinical terminology are already viewed as part of the standardization process.

It is planned that a first practical focus of the joint effort will be mutual engagement with and support of a member-led project to develop a logical record architecture through the UK Terminology Center (the IHTSDO National Release Center for the UK).

Longer term goals include achieving pan-European semantic interoperability of health records, through their work with other organizations.

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