# Update from the openEHR Board Chairman - D. Ingram

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**Created:** [18 December 2009 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/update-from-the-openehr-board-chairman-d-ingram/16224 "2009-12-18T14:59:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [18 December 2009 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/update-from-the-openehr-board-chairman-d-ingram/16224/1 "2009-12-18T14:59:47Z")

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I have today posted an [update](http://www.openehr.org/news_events/announcements/board_update_12dec2009.html) on progress of the _open_EHR Foundation over the past year on the web site.

This is both a report from the Board and some personal reflections on the stage it has reached and the inevitable growing pains it is experiencing.

I would like to say thank you to everyone working so hard to make things happen: in terms of the specifications, the growing repository of formative archetypes, the implementation and dissemination of _open_EHR-based systems, and the discussion of wider partnerships and related governance and licensing issues.

The update addresses some difficult matters of governance and commercial interface, that we must, and do, take very seriously. Everyone involved in _open_EHR should, nonetheless, feel proud that, through their many combined efforts, it continues to make important progress, working towards a viable future configuration with it’s essentially clinically driven and implementation focussed mission fully intact - and as relevant as ever.

Sam, Dipak, Tom, Tony and I send good wishes to you all and express the hope that you will stick with us as we take forward and evolve _open_EHR, with you, in 2010.

David Ingram, for the Foundation Board