To all openEHR vendors,
The English NHS is going out to pre market engagement for a single patient record (SPR).
If there was ever a time to get openEHR into this its now 
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Also there is a Webinar for suppliers this Friday 9th May
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What we have achieved with openEHR is the data aspect of a patient-centric health record (and there are still improvements to be made). But what is needed in the future is an ‘active EHR’, which includes care process tracking. Today, there is no single human who knows everything that is going on with a patient - care is provided in sliced up pieces by specialists, hospitals, allied health, etc, with an attempt at an overview by the GP, although the GP is mainly reduced to referral and being a mail box for all other comms in the system. So the patient-centric record is the only entity that has any hope of representing a continuity of care view for the patient. To be be realistically useful, it will have to include a representation of the ongoing processes, including routine appointment schedule, emergency events and so on.
Without this, there will never be a reliable way for any given clinician to be find out what is going on with the patient, what they need to do next, what has been done, and what the outlook is. THere will also be no organising framework to attach CDS (including AI powered ) or other analytic or plan-oriented tools.
What I believe we need to propose in this kind of RFI is not the openEHR EHR of today, but what it can be in the future, which must involve care pathways and guidelines (the goal of the Task Planning work).
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