Open standards and the separation of data from applications are the prerequisite for the long-term management of clinical data. OpenEHR provides a proven specification for vendor-neutral electronic health records.
All services and all data are accessible through the standardized openEHR REST API. Build simple apps or complex clinical application systems on a shared eHealth plaform.
EHRbase seamlessly integrates with FHIR® Terminology Services and its FHIR-Bridge integration engine ensures your connectivity to applications outside the open platform ecosystem
The openEHR SDK for Java is the faster and smarter way to create clinical applications. Automatically generate classes from clinical models to implement business logic, custom APIs and queries.
EHRbase, FHIR-Bridge and Software Development Kit use the commercially friendly Apache 2.0 license. Build your next eHealth project on proven open source solutions without any restrictions.
No matter if you run a single app within your hospital or need to scale-out on a national level: EHRbase is easily deployable on cloud services as AWS or Azure.
For mission critical deployments, professional maintainance and service level agreements may be appropriate. Professional support is available through commercial vendors.
EHRbase is ready to integrate with your enterprise environments: ATNA Logging, OAuth 2.0 authorization, SSL support, metrics and monitoring endpoints, attribute based access control.
From a technical perspective, EHRbase is an open source software backend for clinical application systems and electronic health records. It is mainly based on the openEHR specifications, an open platform architecture for developing flexible and interoperable eHealth systems. Applications based on openEHR share a common information architecture, i.e. they “speak” the same technical language to express clinical information. This enables interoperability between applications by design.
EHRbase is also community that aims to bring down barriers for vendors, hospitals, regional and national eHealth programs, researchers and others to adapt open standards and thereby foster the establishment of semantic interoperability. As an alternative to proprietary platform products or self-development, EHRbase strives to give organizations a modern, standard-compliant and bedrock-solid foundation for their mission critical business operations and their next generation eHealth solutions.
EHRbase helps software companies to lower their development costs for next generation applications. EHRbase provides an openly specified and vendor-neutral software backend for clinical application systems and electronic health records. The underlying openEHR specification powers the most comprehensive use-cases, including EMRAM Stage 6 certified hospital information systems and national eHealth backbones.
EHRbase does the heavy lifting: clinical semantics, versioning, model-based software development, a standardized REST API, an adaptive database model, automated data validation, model-based querying (using the Archetype Query Language), audit trails, transaction management etc.
EHRbase allows companies to embrace open standards and save a significant amount of development costs at the same time.
As of today, most data within hospitals is still trapped inside proprietary databases. As data lock-in is part of the business model of many vendors, communication interfaces are rare and data migration is very expensive. While data is increasingly becoming an important asset, the current legacy systems hamper the efficient and intelligent use of the data.
EHRbase allows hospitals to enhance the capabilities of their monolithic electronic medical record by introducing a bi-model approach to health IT. The traditional EMR is complemented by a vendor-neutral and open clinical data repository which allows in-house development teams and industry partners to build innovative data-driven solutions for the hospital. Every single data element inside the electronic health record can be safely accessed and processed through an open application programming interface.
As the data is stored in an open format, vendor and data lock-in are prevented.
Providing a lifelong electronic health record to citizens is the primary goal of most eHealth programs. When data should not only be transfered between organizations but be actively used for the improvement of cross-sectoral care processes (e.g. by implementing electronic guidelines or collecting patient reported outcomes) and provide insights through data analytics, an open platform approach is needed. Not only for these reasons, countries like Scotland, Finland, Slovenia and Malta implement nationwide electronic health records based on openEHR.
EHRbase provides a solid foundation for the challenging task of large-scale intrastructures and gives governments full control over the data models and the procurement process: as EHRbase is based on openEHR, switching a substantial part of a nation’s underlying eHealth infrastructure becomes a feasible option.
Large research-organizations like university hospitals face big challenges to efficiently use the enormous amount of data from care and research for analytics. Furthermore, the collaboration in research networks requires organizations to make data FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable.
EHRbase helps to organizations to integrate and normalize data from care and research, provide re-usable and machine-readable information models (through openEHR Archetypes and Templates) and make the data queryable and accessible through the Archetype Query Language and open application programming interfaces.
The value of the EHRbase as research platform grows over time when research databases and clinical registries are natively developed based on openEHR and re-use standardized data models.
As openEHR provides a rich description of the data and is machine-readable, automated transformations to formalisms and tools as i2b2/tranSMART are feasible.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research established the “Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin” in 2020 to counter the COVID-19 crisis. One of the projects funded is the COVID-19 Data Exchange Platform …
Only two months after our alpha release we are proud to announce the first EHRbase beta release. You can find more details about new features and bug fixes on the …
