About OHF

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The Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework (EOHF) is a project within Eclipse formed for the purpose of expediting healthcare informatics technology. The project is composed of extensible frameworks and tools which emphasize the use of existing and emerging standards in order to encourage interoperable open source infrastructure, thereby lowering integration barriers. We currently provide tools and Frameworks for HL7, IHE, Terminology, Devices, and Public Healthcare Maintenance.

The OHF Project is currently in incubation. Background Vision Scope The Open Healthcare Framework addresses part of a need to improve the levels of interoperability between applications and systems within and across healthcare organizations – corporate and regions. The project will implement extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for implementations of key health informatics standards based component and support the objectives of many government health departments to encourage the use of interoperable open source infrastructure to lower integration barriers. The frameworks, components and tools created by this project will be used by vendors and integrators to build workstation applications, gateways and server applications in healthcare infrastructures. needs to be written This activity addresses part of an need to improve the levels of interoperability between applications and systems within and across healthcare organizations – corporate and regions. • This project will implement extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for implementations of key health informatics standards based components. • This project supports the objectives of governments to encourage the use of interoperable open source infrastructure to lower integration barriers. (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, etc.) • The frameworks, components and tools created by this project will be used by vendors and integrators to build workstation applications, gateways and server applications in healthcare infrastructures. • The components will leverage large investments in cross industry middleware and back end systems already widely used. Standards OHF is not about creating standards, it is about building extensible frameworks for implementing accepted and emerging standards. The Eclipse OHF team members work with the following standards groups. – HL7 HL7 is a key medical IT standards group, specializing in medical document and message structures, reference information models, clinical decision support systems, context management systems and other systems. HL7 also lobbies on medical IT issues including privacy. EOHF works with both the Control & Query and Tools sub committees. www.hl7.org – OMG/HL7 OMG’s Healthcare Domain Task Force has joined with HL7 to jointly develop common services standards. These are common services that are used to build health IT applications. EOHF will work with this group to provide the underlying support infrastructure for these services and where appropriate implement these services. (e.g. record location services) http://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2005/03-08-05.htm – ASTM ASTM E31 committee for health Informatics creates standards in a number of areas including architecture, content, storage, security of medical information, as well as continuity of care records (CCR), transcription services, etc. http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/010201h9.pdf – DICOM DICOM creates standards for the transmission and sharing of images used in medical application – primarily radiology. http://medical.nema.org/ – CEN OEHF works with members of CEN committees, mostly in Europe and Australia. – IHE Although a vendor organization and while claiming not be a standards organization, IHE sets the requirements for interoperability testing. It creates profiles (use cases) and states what standards will be used to implement the profiles and how the designated standards will be used (resolves optional feature problems) www.ihe.net Architecture The OHF Project: • Develops health domain specific frameworks and tools • Collaborates with other projects to develop underlying IT infrastructure for health domain requirements • Work items are mostly driven by health interoperability standards & legislation: and Information Exchange Security and Management Healthcare Services HL7 v2, v3 & CDA DICOM Archetypes (+ CEN 13606) IHE Profiles (XDS) ASTM CCR HIPAA IHE Secure Node + ATNA HL7 CCOW XACML CEN 13606 OMG HDTF services (CTS, RLAS, etc) CEN HISA Analytics HL7 EHR-S 4 Committer organsiations Plan