Hi Thomas,
I see we agreed in much of the points, I hope to see other's visions.
Governance is a good issue to discuss with the community, but I can't see any
governance if the OpenEHR boards are distant from the community, and do not
understand their real needs. What I was really talking from the begining of
this discussion is that people, institutions, and goverments have needs that
OpenEHR can satisfy, but at the same time, OpenEHR as a whole is not aware of
their needs, or is not taking actions to do something.
There are a lots of ways of funding, just yesterday, we had an event here in
Uruguay of ICT developments in healthcare (we showed our Open EHR-Gen Framework
and people was amazed about the concept), there was a man called Bob Mayes from
AMIA, and their are launching a subarea called GHiP to build and support
communities that solve problems in healthcare informatics (with funding from
Rockefeller and Bill Gates foundations, tehy have a buck or two :D). GHiP may
be a good place to find some cash to build a governance program to the regional
OpenEHR communities, and to support development and objective acomplishment in
those communities.
The governance program must have an item on how to spend the funding, and this
item must be agreed by the community.
It'd be a good idea if we create some section on the web or the wiki, where we
can write some thoughs on the governance subject, also we can put some
governance ideas from other communities, discuss them, and see if the community
agree them. Again, without the involvement of the boards, this will be a
dead-before-born subject.
Again, I think we can build some money to improve the tools, like
making courses, events (like the IHE Connectathon), selling books,
t-shirts, coffe cups, etc (donations are always welcome). I'm
against a paid membership, it closes a community that claims to be
open, this is not a gym :D
well, its why we never did that. I think your ideas are good, the
only concern I have is that I think there still has to be a
sufficiently strong central part of the organisation to help
organise materials, resources, and run the governance structure; at
the moment there is not enough funding to do what would be needed to
support local orgs.
But I would very much like to see openehr.cl, .br, .uy, etc.
Just an idea: I think the Service Model is very green yet, but
when it go a little more mature, we can make automated tests to
test the implementations, and they can have an OpenEHR certificate
that the software meets the specification (a paid certificate).
we can already test with XML schemas. You are right, the service
models will be a key basis for conformance testing, but it will take
some more time to get the required maturity.
- thomas
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