Open eHealth Foundation to Provide Solid Basis for Interoperability

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Ruslan David

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Mar 5, 2008, 7:48:54 AM3/5/08

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Open eHealth Foundation announced that Agfa HealthCare, eHealth
specialist InterComponentWare (ICW), and Sun Microsystems, Inc. have
joined as foundation members of the new Open eHealth Foundation, an
Open Source initiative that is unique in the healthcare IT arena. The
Open eHealth Foundation will provide software components under an Open
Source license that will boost the open standards-based exchange of
medical information.

The eHealth market is set for explosive growth. This demand is driven
by growing challenges to healthcare systems in industrialized
societies, as well as new medical information and communication
technologies. Recent research suggested that the eHealth industry has
the potential of a global budget of 73 to 88 bn US$. In order to
capitalize on this huge market potential and to improve medical care,
interoperability of electronic medical records and personal health
records by different vendors is critical.

Sincerely,
Ruslan David, MD

IFOMIS
eHealth Ontology Project
http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/

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