Open source and HL7, an open standard for healthcare IT solutions, are key elements in a tender for an e-health telemedicine project to be implemented at the Danish municipality of Syddjurs. "By using open source, we aim to encourage the development of new functionalities", says Frederik Mølgaard Thayssen, IT project leader.
Syddjurs will publish the tender request in early November. It expects the e-health platform to be up and running by the summer of 2015. "It will enable citizens and health organisations to communicate digitally, using video, audio and text", Mølgaard Thayssen says.
The project will require a platform allowing the exchange of documents and data, and Syddjurs wants to make sure that citizens stay in control, and that health workers can access the data that they need.
Presentation
The IT project leader for Syddkjur is to present the project in a workshop in the city of Århus on 13 January.
The meeting is organised by OS2, Denmark's online community for public administrations using open source, and 4S, a foundation supporting software vendors implementing OpenTele, an open source-based home healthcare monitoring project.
Build tools
The workshop will introduction new solutions for municipalities and suppliers that want to focus on new open source e-health solutions. The workshop will cover CIT architecture, platforms and standards, fitting in Denmark's new national reference architecture, says Jon Badstue Pedersen, one of the founders of OS2 and head of section at Syddjurs.
Next to Syddjurss' upcoming e-health platform, the workshop will include an overview on open e-health standards, and on open source e-health solutions.
More information:
Announcement of the open source e-healthcare workshop (in Danish)
Announcement of 4S (Stiftelsen for Software-baserede Sundheds-Services, foundation for software-based health services) in Danish
OSOR news item