openEHR and Open Platform Ecosystems: Toward Vendor-Neutral, Interoperable Clinical Data Architectures
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This article discusses the persistent problem of clinical data fragmentation across proprietary health systems worldwide. It introduces the open platform approach anchored in openEHR specifications as an alternative architecture that uses vendor-neutral, standardized clinical models to achieve semantic interoperability, data portability, and better support for care coordination, patient safety, and secondary use of data for research, public health, and AI.
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· 3 pulledHealth systems worldwide face persistent fragmentation of clinical data across proprietary systems, hindering care coordination, patient safety, and the secondary use of data for research, public health, and AI.
Despite decades of standardisation efforts, most electronic health record deployments remain locked into vendor-specific data models that limit semantic interoperability and long-term data portability.
The open platform approach, anchored in the openEHR specifications, offers an alternative architecture based on vendor-neutral, standardised clinical models.
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