Architecture Overview vBASE 1.2.0

This document is the key technical overview of openEHR and should be read before all other technical documents. It provides an overview of the openEHR architecture in terms of model overview, key global semantics, deployment and integration architectures, relationship with published standards, and the approach to building Implementation Technology Specifications (ITSs).

The intended audience includes standards bodies producing health informatics standards, academic groups using openEHR, the open source healthcare community and solution vendors.

Main sections:

· Overview

· Aims of the openEHR architecture

· Design principles

· openEHR specification structure

· Design of the openEHR EHR

· Security and confidentiality

· Versioning

· Identification

· Archetypes and templates

· Paths and locators

· Terminology in openEHR

· Deployment

· Integrating openEHR with other systems

· Relationship to Standards

· Implementation technology specifications