New directions for openEHR 2008

Technical (archive)
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Dear all,

we have created some new pages describing at a strategic level what the openEHR Foundation and community might try to do in the current and next year (20088/9).

  • openEHR Vision - http://www.openehr.org/about/vision.html

  • openEHR Specifications - Strategic directions - http://www.openehr.org/specifications/spec_strategy.html

  • openEHR Specification Roadmap 2008 - http://www.openehr.org/specifications/spec_roadmap_2008.html

  • openEHR Clinical Strategic Directions - http://www.openehr.org/clinicalmodels/clinical_strategy.html
    These can all be reached from the first page mentioned. They are connected to the website as follows:

  • The Vision page has a hotlink on the home page and is linked into the About Us top-level menu item

  • The Specifications - Strategic directions and Specification Roadmap 2008 pages are linked under the Specification Project menu item

  • The Clinical Strategic Directions pages is linked under the Clinical Modelling Project menu item
    We want the community to feel that this material represents the community interest, so we are interested in feedback on all of the material presented. What results from your feedback will result in changes, bringing these plans closer to describing all our needs. NOTE: the intention is not to create a “finished” version of these pages, but a rolling, live set of pages that continuously describe our aims and programme.

Note also that the openEHR Jira server is up and running, and the specification project can be viewed online at http://www.openehr.org/issues/browse/SPEC

For the moment, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES on the Jira server - there is still some configuration to be done, and another project to be added to allow public issue reporting for the Specification project and other projects. Once this is done, everyone will be able to raise issues against any of the projects being carried out on openEHR, as well as watch progress. We will probably implement Jira voting to enable the community to help decide on what goes in each release. FOR NOW, feel free to create a login and browse! (Please use login ids of the form firstname.lastname unless you already have a login).

  • thomas beale
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Dear Thomas,

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KOBAYASHI, Shinji wrote:

Dear Thomas,

- openEHR Specification Roadmap 2008 - http://www.openehr.org/specifications/spec_roadmap_2008.html
    
I found ADL 1.5 in this roadmap. Otherwise, ADL 2.0 specification was
announced last year. Would you explain the difference between ADL 1.5
and 2.0?

ADL 1.5 will contain extensions for supporting openEHR templates, i.e.
some extra semantics (not much). ADL 2 is a more regular syntax for
archetypes. When ADL 2 is adopted, it will contain all the semantics
released in all previous versions, i.e. 1.4, 1.5 etc.

- thomas beale

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Dear Thomas,