Oliver Frank wrote: > >> David Guest wrote: >> >>> Does anyone think openEHR will ever produce the goods? > > Tim Churches wrote: >> >> the openEHR people assure us that several private >> firms are using openEHR-based systems in deployed proprietary vertical >> health apps > >> Tools to actually >> store and retrieve data using openEHR archetypes are at alpha or beta >> stages in the openEHR secret laboratory > >> Thomas Beale has offered access to >> an openEHR engine hosted in the Ocean Informatics labs, to be accessed >> via a proprietary Web service interface requiring the use of a Microsoft >> C# .NET DLL on the client side > >> All these openEHR tools still under development may or may >> not be open sourced in the future > > For something called *open* EHR, there seems to be an awful lot of > closed aspects to it.
In defence of the Ocean Informatics and openEHR people, they have been completely open regarding the concepts behind openEHR and the specifications which cover most but not all aspects of it. They have not sought any patents on their ideas, which is laudable indeed. Nor do I don't think it is fair to criticise them for not being "open" regarding their software implementations. Two tools have been released as open source, and they haven't ruled out releasing the rest in a similar manner, but that is uncertain. However, they never undertook to do so. Thomas Beale has said repeatedly that there is nothing stopping others from implementing the openEHR concepts as software, and he is correct, and others have. The issue I pointed out is that, right now, none of those implementations seem to be available in a production-ready state, either as open source or as commercial components licensed for a fee, which developers can use to build openEHR-based systems with - with the exception, it seems, of Extensia's software, and on their own admission, they have been "in internal mode due to corporate restructuring and a focus on current projects, so there has not been much fanfare to date", so perhaps I can be forgiven for not being fully aware of their product - which I and I am sure others are keen to test. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
