Over the last few years the number of openEHR implementations, both commercial and research, has grown. There should now be a significant amount of experience with service interfaces, and it seems time to get moving on defining some openEHR standards for them.
In the interests of 'starting small', I would suggest that the EHR service is the best starting point. See here <http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/openEHR+Service+Model#openEHRServiceModel-EHRandRelatedServices> for one view of what this is, but even this description may change, as the world apparently progresses toward a more RESTful stateless architecture style. In summary, one view of an 'EHR service' is the interface to the EHR data store: a place to put and retrieve EHRs. Obviously lots of other services are needed to build a whole solution (as described in the page above), but this one has a small interface and is not complicated to understand. It seems reasonable to work towards a standard version by posting service definitions from existing systems / products, and following some discussion, to attempt to create a merged consensus version. Note: more than one service interface is ok! For example, a stateless REST style interface is just one approach; a stateful interface is just as valid for some purposes. Other flavours may also make sense. As an example of an EHR service interface, the Ocean Informatics one is posted here <http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/Ocean+Informatics+EHR+Service+Interface>, and is only about a dozen functions long. It would be great to see some other service interfaces posted - please do that here <http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/EHR+Service+Specification> - i.e. add an entry like the Ocean one, and then add a child page. Once we get a feel for the diversity (or unanimity), we might be able to make some quick progress toward a proper openEHR EHR service. - thomas beale -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120207/2016c981/attachment.html>
