[sbis_l] Fwd: openEHR Transition Announcement (about regional/national openehr organizations)

Respondendo à Luciana.  Todos os objrtos e materiais da fundação vão permanecer livres,assim como  a associação. E a mudança de modelo de governança, que procura atender justamente a questöes que vêm sendo discutidas na lista  e tem incorporado sugestões de seus membros, está aberta para comentários e sugestões. Participe, colocando suas considerações, assim como o exemplo abaixo.

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Jussara Rotzsch

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From: Ian McNicoll <Ian.McNicoll@oceaninformatics.com>
Date: 7 de setembro de 2011 03h38min45s BRT
To: For openEHR technical discussions <openehr-technical@openehr.org>
Cc: openehr clinical <openehr-clinical@openehr.org>
Subject: Re: openEHR Transition Announcement (about regional/national openehr organizations)
Reply-To: For openEHR clinical discussions <openehr-clinical@openehr.org>

Thanks Pablo,

I am aware of the very excellent work being done around the world,
often with insufficient publicity and I too think that regional
support should be added to the White Paper but we should discuss
further what sort of top-down assistance might be realistic to achieve
in the short-term.

We all hope that the suggested changes lead to more resources becoming
available  but it would be difficult to assume that this will be the
case, given that membership and access to Foundation materials will
continue to be free of charge.

So, my question back, is

"What sort of support would you like to see, given that significant
central resourcing is not likely in the short term?"

I know Thomas has some ideas about ramping up the software repository
and I am very keen on the idea of a non-CKM archetype/ template
'nursery' (more elsewhere) and I could imagine that one or both might
be useful at regional level.

Would it be sufficient for the Foundation to give 'official status' to
regional affiliates e.g. openEHR Japan, or are there other practical
suggestions as to how best to support regional affiliates?

Ian

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On 6 September 2011 16:38, pablo pazos <pazospablo@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Not so long ago we have discussed about a governance and organization model

to the openEHR community, and we have talked about regional/national openEHR

communities

(http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom/Foundation+Organisational+Structure).

I can't find this mentioned in the whitepaper.

I think if we want to have a global impact on the ehr scene, we need to

support those communities also, and define ways to coordinate the work of

the community as a whole.

What do you think?

--

Kind regards,

Ing. Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez

LinkedIn: http://uy.linkedin.com/in/pablopazosgutierrez

Blog: http://informatica-medica.blogspot.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos

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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:00:45 +0100

From: thomas.beale@oceaninformatics.com

To: openehr-announce@openehr.org

Subject: [openEHR-announce] openEHR Transition Announcement

Dear All,

I am writing on behalf of the new Transitional Board of openEHR to share our

plans to take openEHR to a new level of operations; a new structure,

business model and governance. Our vision is the creation of a thriving

community that works collaboratively to benefit humanity through efficient

and effective electronic health records (EHRs) that support the highest

quality health care for the least effort.

Until now, the openEHR Foundation has functioned as an owner of intellectual

property, governed by University College London and Ocean Informatics, with

board members Prof David Ingram (UCL), Prof Dipak Kalra (UCL) and Dr Sam

Heard (Ocean).

With the support of the considerable community of Members and via engagement

of a new category of sponsoring organisational Member known as 'Associates'

- Companies, Universities and Governments - the Transitional Board proposes

a number of changes:

The openEHR Foundation becomes an operational non-profit organisation with

paid key staff and resources;

The Board (of governance) of the Foundation is extended to up to 10 people

with a shift to election by the openEHR Associates;

Members who participate are recognised by their peers, may take on

decision-making roles, and have the right to commit changes to the key

development assets of the Foundation.

The Members will participate individually and, through qualification by peer

recognition, will control the development within the three Programmes that

are building the key assets:

The openEHR specifications of the logical health record and attendant

services as well as the methods for describing the content using archetypes

(Detailed Clinical Models) and templates; and

The openEHR archetypes and templates to be used within systems and for

message content between systems to achieve interoperability; and

The openEHR software projects, to provide open source development of tools

to support the uptake and use of the specifications and templates.

A group of Members will be needed to bootstrap each of these programmes and

determine the working arrangements that are suitable to the products that

they are managing at the current stage of development.

The Associates will determine who governs the Foundation by nominating and

voting on new members of the Board. The Board will appoint key Operational

staff and will approve the leader of each of the Programmes. The Programme

Leaders will be appointed by Qualified Members working in that Programme,

subject to Board approval. We believe this will create the right balance

between the 'ground up' creation of openEHR through participation of Members

and 'top down' governance.

The first step is to share with you a white paper providing more detail on

the proposals and to ensure that the Members are reasonably satisfied that

this is the right direction to head.

Some key activities have been proceeding in the background and are reaching

a point of maturity. It has taken us some time to gather more clinical

champions in this endeavour and companies that can use and work with the

tools in their early stages of development. It has also taken quite some

time for Thomas Beale to work out how to provide a seamless pathway between

definition of archetypes, specialisation of archetypes to ensure development

scalability, to meet jurisdictional requirements, and templates that allow

tailoring for actual use in specific settings. The result is ADL/AOM 1.5. He

has, as usual, been totally committed to this work and it is probably very

important for me to say, it is "no mean feat".

There is a lot to do. Most important are:

Begin to showcase development teams and software using openEHR successfully

in clinical settings;

Finalise ADL/AOM 1.5, including its succinct XML expression, and integrate

it into existing and emerging tools;

Update the openEHR reference model to version 1.1 bringing our collective

knowledge to bear on the new features and changes while ensuring backward

compatibility;

Begin an open source software project for tools, web-based if possible, to

author archetypes, templates and terminology reference sets directly

interacting with the Clinical Knowledge Manager and equivalent repository

and review tools; and

Establish a mechanism for Associates to formally endorse archetypes (and

possibly in the longer term templates) for international use.

The Board has been changed to manage the transition until we are in a

position to take nominations from Associates. Prof. David Ingram will become

President and remain on the Board. Dr Bill Aylward from Moorfield's Eye

Hospital (the Open Eyes Project) will join Dr Ian McNicoll with his long

advocacy of health care computing (British Computer Society) and Dr Jussara

Rotzsch who has been involved in establishing openEHR as the Brazilian

national EHR model. Professor Dipak Kalra and I will remain and I become

Chair of the Board initially. The new Board will now actively seek

Associates to engage in this important work and to provide secure governance

into the future.

At present many of our key participants are being drawn into national

programmes. Whilst this is encouraging, we need to bring this work, where

appropriate, back to the international community as quickly as possible. It

is clear that governance that is acceptable to these national programs and

industry is a very important step. It is also our belief that standard SDO

processes are not suitable for our work and we have instead modelled our

future on collaborative engineering efforts. Our products must be fit for

purpose, stable and have an update cycle that is in tune with our domain.

Free membership for participants and free access to the assets of the

Foundation remains a fundamental principle going forward. Our commitment to

open specifications, open software and open clinical models, unrestrictive

to commercial use, remains unchanged.

We hope you will join with us enthusiastically in the next phase of

development of the Foundation and comment freely on the attached paper.

There will be many views on what we need to do and how we might best achieve

it. The Board is very interested in alternative ways to balance the needs of

industry and governments with those of the developers and users of the

system.

Let's make the future of eHealth work efficiently for all.

Yours sincerely, Sam Heard

Acknowledgements: Thank you to David Ingram, Dipak Kalra, Thomas Beale,

Martin van der Meer and Tony Shannon for assisting in the planning.

openEHR Transition White Paper

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