The latest edition of Microsoft's Connected Health Framework - a
strategy based on the idea of 'knowledge-driven health' (see
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/technology/HealthFramework.mspx)
- includes openEHR (ISO 13606-2) archetypes as part of its domain
knowledge architecture. There is much worth reading in this set of
documents, including a good analysis of the problem space, deployment
scenarios and issues, semantic and services architecture and much else
besides.
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The quality of this work may surprise some used to working mostly in the
open source world. To those sceptics, I would recommend a read. It can
only be a good thing if domain-enabling from the openEHR
knowledge-oriented health computing platform appear in both open source
and commercial platforms such as Microsoft Windows.
- thomas beale