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Development of open EMRs/EHRs

John Halamka posted a refreshing entry about development of APIs that allow easier integration with EMRs and EHRs. Since I have been concerned in recent blog entries about how EMRs, EHRs and HIEs will integrate this was refreshing news.

I am going to dive in and examine some of the technologies described: XDR, XDM and XDS.

Some other initiatives I found that promote development of open healthcare technologies:

  • ihe – integrating healthcare enterprise
  • oht – open health tools
  • ohf – open health framework
  • openehr
  • openmrs
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October 2, 2009 - Posted by | Health Information Technology | , , , , , , , , ,

2 Comments »

  1. I think it could save you some time to really get a handle on openEHR before OHT, OHF or OpenMRS, though admittedly it’s harder to find the resources to implement it properly given the private-dominated US healthcare system.

    Comment by lisa | January 26, 2010 | Reply

  2. [...] practice selects an EMR. A few choices: proprietary vendors such as EPIC, Cerner and Eclipsys or  OpenSource alternatives . Both require creating evaluation criteria and extensive RFI/RFP processes by a project steering [...]

    Pingback by How to select and deploy an Electronic Medical Record system « The HealthITBlog | February 26, 2010 | Reply


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