Two weeks on since #EHRCON25, and the conversations around open standards are still echoing across the digital health community. They are the driving force behind the adoption of a more efficient, patient-centric approach to healthcare characterised by vendor-neutral, interoperable EHRs, and there has been significant momentum in the open standards landscape over the past 12 months. Chairing a panel at the conference comprising some of the sector’s most visionary strategists, vitagroup CCO Matt Cox asked the question: ❓ “What precipitated this change?” From national strategy to the advance of AI and increasing demand among clinicians, here are some of the panel’s responses: 🤲 “We have been getting better at producing consensus-building processes across the board.” - Grahame Grieve, HL7 FHIR 🩺 “There’s that real focus around the need for access to information, access to data… and clinicians are expecting more; they actually want information they can do something with and data that they can use.” - Kate Ebrill, CSIRO, Sparked AU 🤝 “What we’ve seen in the last 12 months is the coming together of a number of openEHR-underpinned programmes that are delivering benefit… and that is building trust. It’s building trust with our commissioners… clinicians… and our publics.” - Luke Readman, NHS London 🫂“Cultural change…. to see the standards organisations working together… it’s really accelerated things.” - Dr Heather Leslie, openEHR/Atomica 💾“Our ability to say, why don’t we just use each other’s technology, each other’s tooling, each other’s methodologies, to enhance what we’re doing” - Dr Ian McNicoll, freshEHR #digitalhealth #openstandards
Some great discussion points from Matt Cox around shaping the future standards landscape.
It was a fascinating panel. Thanks!