for clinicians
openEHR enables a truly patient-centric health record, in which data and alerts can be shared by everyone involved in a patient’s care pathway. Our clinical models, built with the collaboration of healthcare professionals from nearly 100 countries, are published openly.
openEHR allows multidisciplinary teams – including patients and carers – to easily access and aggregate healthcare data, assisting in the early identification of risks, ensuring continuity of treatment, enabling smooth handovers, reducing duplication and ultimately, improving the healthcare journey for patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
Unlike mainstream healthcare IT, openEHR’s clinical models are created by healthcare domain experts who understand the unique challenges of the sector, united by a single mission: reduce clinical workload whilst improving patient outcomes.
for patients
openEHR enables the creation of a longitudinal, single patient record, making it possible for patients to be fully involved in their own healthcare journey, across providers. Patients can use their own devices to directly enter data, view their health records and define consent for carers and family members, creating a richer, more efficient and comprehensive patient record which is particularly valuable for long-term and community healthcare needs, including pregnancy, cancer care and chronic illness.
for reseachers
The underlying principles behind openEHR are to make data coherent, structured and patient‑centric, and to store it independently of applications. Research projects thus work with a high‑quality, homogeneous resource, allowing them to focus on the questions at hand rather than data integration.
Seamless Data Access – access all data in one, standardised and structured format via open APIs and a powerful querying language.
Simplify Data Extraction – openEHR provides a single controlled source for ETL extraction, including OMOP, RedCap, OMOP and R and custom formats.
for professional colleges
By providing a community and technical framework via which computable guidelines are created and deployed in operational systems, openEHR supports professional medical, nursing and allied health colleges and associations around the world in the development of care guidelines and standards, data sets and research projects.
for developers
- Data is independent of any single application
- Easily compare data from various sources
- Speedy development to meet customer needs
- Open source and commercial openEHR platforms available.
Build your openEHR applications quickly and efficiently. With low-code development tools, non-developers can create applications. For more advanced needs, we provide robust tools for form-building, AQL query language, and openEHR REST API connectivity.
Seamlessly integrate your data with openEHR. Our framework lets you develop models that mirror external systems and international standards for easy data import and export. Use international and local terminologies through model bindings for maximum compatibility.
for healthcare providers
Are you tired of being stuck with limited procurement options and a tangled mess of data silos? Say goodbye to product lock-in with openEHR. Our mission is to set the standard for an open, vendor‑neutral platform for health records and interoperable clinical and research data. openEHR publishes its specifications and clinical models freely and under open licenses.
openEHR offers a path to incremental procurement of platform components including CDR, terminology, registry and access control, with API‑conformant applications available from multiple suppliers.
Deeper dive?
Check out Dr Ian McNicoll’s insightful webinar with the Better team covering the technical capabilities of openEHR, its unique approach to data management, and why it fundamentally transforms the traditional federated approach to data.