The first call-off in Tender Area 1 Open EHR- based Software was sent to the framework partners in Tender Area 1 ( Better d.o.o., Medblocks and Tietoevry AB) this past monday (with some parts added today). The response was required to be submitted within three weeks. The call-off documents (including requirements) will be publicly published some weeks after a contract has been signed, so maybe later in the summer.
As you may know Tietoevry and Better are business partners so the contract includes a combination of CDR, tools etc. from Better and Tietoevry’s Care Desktop and other framework parts (that are used e.g. in Finland).
If all extension possibilities etc. over the years would be used in this contract, then it is likely the largest call-off that fits under the 4-year framework agreement.
As mentioned previously in this forum thread…
…we will now focus on other call-offs, they will be published in normal official procurement portals when ready and likely also mentioned in this forum thread.
The duration of the contract is stated in Karolinska-2024-A1C1-Contract text extracted.docx as “thirty-six (36) months with the possibility of extension options of eighteen (18) + eighteen (18) months”
I have not (yet) been able to access and share the content of the procurement portal forms, but hope that the files uploaded to the wiki page will cover most of the interesting things.
An update regarding the call-off for informatics expert consultancy within Tender Area 3 regarding integration (openEHR modeling and mapping) from our legacy EHR (TakeCare) to openEHR: The project was a success and a final report is now being finalized. This will be brieflly described (in English) during Karolinska’s presentation at Highmed openEHR symposium 31.1.25
A slide (in Swedish) from one of the project’s demo sessions [se English in update below]:
Interesting Slide - looks a bit complicated, but it is how it is. My question to you is that how soon you will get rid of all this and will have one openEHR based EHR?
That last post with the “complicated” graph is about how to ultimately take care of decades of important EHR data from millions of patients in our current EHR, so we do NOT want to get rid of that data, just get rid of the old system before it stops being supported. @JuhaMuinonen, I am not the one deciding to buy old-fashioned monolith EHR systems, so I can not answer your question.
But I do know it takes more time than technically necessary even in companies that have a decent vision: In 2009 (!) I was involved a bit in the very clever approach that @rong.chen spearheaded to show how the proprietary Cambio COSMIC system could start using openEHR more in the care documentation module, see Archetype-based conversion of EHR content models: pilot experience with a regional EHR system | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. But the customer group (healthcare region representatives) and the company did not prioritize this then so the features were never introduced in the main system then. Now, more than 15 years later most Swedish regions (including recent additions) are still entering new information into COSMIC’s care documentation module, using mostly proprietary models and non-standardised forms. For some vital parameters etc. hardcoded openEHR-archetype-inspired structures are used in COSMIC though, so at least those will be easier to reuse in a fully openEHR-based system.
