Posted on behalf of the openEHR Board
There have been recent additional suggestions posted on the openEHR
wiki in response to the consultation about future licensing
arrangements for openEHR IP, as part of the Foundation’s policy and
aim of transferring it under suitable and sustainable international
governance. The context of this consultation was set out in the
announcement in April.
It is timely to report that the openEHR core team and senior
representatives of IHTSDO are engaged in a wide-ranging discussion,
exploring how best to work together to ensure that those who wish to
use openEHR archetypes and SNOMED CT can do so more easily and
effectively in the future.
The licensing and governance framework for SNOMED terminology is
well-established. We are currently exploring, in detailed practical
terms that build on the Memorandum of Understanding agreed last year,
how best to align efforts to create a sustainable international
governance framework for openEHR archetypes that use SNOMED
terminology.
We expect to have good progress to report on this discussion, by the
autumn of 2010.
The Foundation would welcome related discussion and advice from the
users and adopters of openEHR, including views on how further
alignment between archetypes/templates and standardised terminology,
such as SNOMED CT, would/should impact the specification, governance
and licensing of clinical content and development of Electronic Health
Records. Tony Shannon has kindly agreed to moderate this discussion
on the openEHR clinical list and distill the key points onto the wiki.
In the light of these developments, we are extending the consultation
period on licensing options until the end of August.
David Ingram, Sam Heard, Dipak Kalra, for the Foundation Board.
July 1st , 2010