Karolinska University Hospital, the largest in Sweden (and recently ranked the world’s seventh* best hospital) is right now procuring openEHR systems, tools and services.
We have collaborated in the Swedish healthcare sector and lot of the requirement specifications shared in this discussion thread (based on feedback in Region Östergötlands procurement process) have been reused in Karolinska’s procurement. (I congratulate them on being faster in getting an actual procurement call off the ground.)
Karolinska are using a faster and potentially more dynamic procurement approach via existing fairly general national framework agreements, see avropa.se where openEHR vendors and service providers (including consultancy services) will respond via existing partners in the framework agreement.
If this works out well I believe we can get a more dynamic openEHR market situation in Sweden (and less cumbersome procurement processes). Other regions and organisations may follow Karolinskas procurement path, a path that still opens for other regions/organisations to pick other offers via the framework agreements than the ones Karolinska may pick.
I hope @patrikgh or someone else from Karolinska will provide some more info soon since the time for asking questions in Karolinskas call is closing very soon and then there are just a few weeks left to make offers.
If I have understood things correctly their plan is to use openEHR in both a data normalisation platform for research, integrations etc. and also over time to replace their current EHR piece by piece. A pretty audacious and very strategical move toward semantic sustainability and application/system agility.
Good luck all openEHR system, tool and service providers (including consultants)! And good luck Karolinska! This will be interesting!
*) Ranked seventh in the world means ranked second in Europe, right behind Charité in Berlin - a hospital that is also using openEHR, in the HiGHmed project…