The momentum around openEHR is on the rise. And we will remember the year 2022 as the year when all the big players in the healthcare landscape have embraced openEHR as the standard for data persistence. Microsoft, Dedalus, EY, and many many more have joined the openEHR community and as EY stated in its latest document, openEHR is the only international open health data standard that can cater for the complexity of health semantics and is designed for persistence.

openEHR has been designed to store information in a clear structure and well-modeled framework, and in combination with HL7 FHIR and IHE standards, openEHR is now being deployed in a growing number of countries in Europe. UK, Germany, Malta, Cyprus, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and many others have embraced all the benefits of the open standard.

Hospitals, regions, and countries are moving in a direction of regional architectures and standardised data repositories based on open data models, being used for care providing and care coordination. The last in line is the Catalan government which has launched the tender to procure a health data platform as a service that needs to be fully compliant with openEHR standard. In a desire to build a patient and data-centric longitudinal electronic health record and with a vision of providing integrated care coordination, Catalonia is leading the way into the future.

In the session, we will hear it from the co-chair of the openEHR International, an organisation that is actively promoting lifelong, patient‑centric shared health records, future‑proof data, and clinical process support. Tomaž Gornik is an openEHR visionary who has been promoting openEHR and other open standards for more than 20 years, and who has a proven track record of delivering innovative turn-key solutions, as well as state-of-the-art technology, architectures, and processes.

What are the benefits that the openEHR standard and a modular ecosystem based on open data bring? What can we learn from openEHR cases across Europe? How can we build on the momentum of this year and what will the future in digital healthcare bring? In his lecture, Gornik will answer all of these questions, present the concrete use-cases and lessons learned with real-world deployments, and try to explain how could openEHR benefit the healthcare system of Sweden.