Hi! I just want to notify EHR vendors and other interested parties that there is now a (from Swedish perspective) big procurement/buying process starting. It is the three largest healthcare regions in Sweden covering 5 million of Sweden's 9 million inhabitants, it is the regions containing Sweden's largest cities Stockholm (Stockholms l?ns landsting), Gothenburg (V?stra G?talandsregionen) and Malm? (Region Sk?ne) that together will attempt to get a good deal for a new (probably) all comprehensive EHR/Health-IT-system covering for example both primary and secondary care. I hear rumors that the deal or procurement might be open for other Swedish regions to join.
Personally I hope that whoever wins this battle will be open to using real open/shared detailed clinical modeling via something like CIMI, ISO13606 or openEHR and open/shared clinical query capabilities comparable to AQL, and a way to share decision support rules between systems. Either by using some powerful enough RM+AM system internally or by creating reusable (not too manually resource demanding) conversion mechanisms between internal models/queries/rules and international shared models/queries/rules. If the procurement organisation sees enough value in such shared models/queries/rules or not, I guess is still an open question that probably will be affected by how different actors present the value of this compared to potential benefits of proprietary such models and systems. A press release in Swedish with some names and contact information is available at http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/region_skane/pressreleases/nu-laeggs-grunden-foer-ett-gemensamt-informationssystem-foer-sjukvaarden-1105218 (and via a non-perfect Google translation <https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mynewsdesk.com%2Fse%2Fregion_skane%2Fpressreleases%2Fnu-laeggs-grunden-foer-ett-gemensamt-informationssystem-foer-sjukvaarden-1105218&edit-text=&act=url> ) According to an article at... http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.604479/nu-lyfter-de-tre-stora-vardregionerna-it-miljon (and via a non-perfect Google translation <https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomputersweden.idg.se%2F2.2683%2F1.604479%2Fnu-lyfter-de-tre-stora-vardregionerna-it-miljon> ) ...there will first be a requirements gathering process (around one year?) and then procurement follows.The article states that they are looking a bit at Denmark and Finland that recently have bought new systems. One could hope that they will also have a look at some recent Norwegian "Nasjonal IKT" developments involving open specifications and archetypes, e.g. http://arketyper.no/ckm/. I guess a similar procurement battle is going on in (or coming to) Norway. It is worth noting that Sweden is a member of IHTSDO and that Snomed CT has been translated and is available in Swedish. I hope vendors will show proper capabilities to make use of powerful terminology systems and ontologies and that requirement gathering staff will describe what they want to use the systems for now and in the future. As always the requirements gathering is likely to be influenced by what is already available on the market and by marketing actions of involved players. This message contains no secrets so feel free to forward it to other persons and organisations. Good luck to both vendors and requirement gathering staff! Best regards, Erik Sundvall Ph.D. Medical Informatics. Information Architect. Tel: +46-72-524 54 55 (or 010-1036252 in Sweden) Region ?sterg?tland: erik.sundvall at regionostergotland.se (previously lio.se ) http://www.regionostergotland.se/cmit/ Link?ping University: erik.sundvall at liu.se, http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ P.s. to openEHR vendors: If... you in a connectathon-like demo can demonstrate real interoperabilty between several openEHR-capable systems and that complete EHR content for patients, decision rules, archetypes, templates etc can be moved from one system to several competing (and/or open source) systems without too much hassle ...then... the procurement argument of "avoiding vendor lock-in" will be more interesting. Such a demo would be interesting for some of us working in other Swedish regions too. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20150116/5db71c4b/attachment-0001.html>
