Introduction

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1.1 Purpose

This document describes the openEHR Support Reference Model, whose semantics are used by all openEHR Reference Models. The intended audience includes:

• Standards bodies producing health informatics standards;
• Software development organisations developing EHR systems;
• Academic groups studying the EHR;
• The open source healthcare community.

1.2 Related Documents

Prerequisite documents for reading this document include:

• The openEHR Architecture Overview
• The openEHR Modelling Guide

1.3 Status

This document is under development, and is published as a proposal for input to standards processes and implementation works.

This document is available at ​http://svn.openehr.org/specification/TAGS/Release ​1.0.1/publishing/architecture/rm/support_im.pdf.

The latest version of this document can be found at ​http://svn.openehr.org/specifica ​tion/TRUNK/publishing/architecture/rm/support_im.pdf.

Blue text indicates sections under active development.

1.4 Peer review

Areas where more analysis or explanation is required are indicated with “to be continued” paragraphs like the following:

To Be Continued: more work required

Reviewers are encouraged to comment on and/or advise on these paragraphs as well as the main content. Please send requests for information to info@… provided on the mailing list openehr-technical@…, or by private email.

1.5 Conformance

Conformance of a data or software artifact to an openEHR Reference Model specification is determined by a formal test of that artifact against the relevant openEHR Implementation Technology Specification(s) (ITSs), such as an IDL interface or an XML-schema. Since ITSs are formal, automated derivations from the Reference Model, ITS conformance indicates RM conformance.

Editors:{T Beale, S Heard}, {D Kalra, D Lloyd} Date of Issue: 08 Apr 2007

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