News and Events

SNOMED CTR Modular Workbench - Prior Information Notice

June 13, 2008. The IHTSDO is providing Prior Information Notice for the supply of a SNOMED CTR Modular Workbench. In this information notice, the Background, Modular Workbench, Workbench Functions, Reference Set Management, Translation, Mapping, Workbench Sub-systems, and a Conceptual Architecture of the IHTSDO Project are described.  Because of our organizational neutrality, OHT is providing a support function for this Prior Information Notice.

More Projects Go Live

May 21, 2008. Two new projects have been added to the Open Health Tools Project Repository. The Academic Outreach Charter Project is an open software research and development project that includes a Research Stream, Education Stream and Incubator Stream. The Open Health Workbench Forge Project is the open-source subset of the clinical modeling and data standards tooling platform used by the English National Health Service.

Second Board meeting introduces new members and projects.

April 14, 2008. Open Health Tools' progress was discussed at the second Board of Stewards meeting, held in Chicago on April 14, 2008. New members were introduced (bringing the total to 27), new Charter Projects were detailed (seven have now received at least approval in principle). See the minutes for details and links to all the material presented at the meeting.

Tri-Continental Foundation of Experts, Open Health Tools, to Collaborate on Global Health IT Solutions

April 8, 2008. Open Health Tools today announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, government-funded organizations and agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop common healthcare IT products and services. See the full press release.

Forge Project Repository Goes Live

Open Health Tools software repository was made publicly accessible on April 2, 2008. The first project to be released is NHS's xmlprocess (an XML Forms engine).

First Open Health Tools Board Meeting a Success

On November 15, 2007, representatives from 24 organizations met in Toronto for the founding board meeting of Open Health Tools.  Hosted by Canada health Infoway, the meeting attracted representatives from the National Health Service in the UK, the National e-Health Transition Authority in Australia, the National Cancer Institute in the US, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, and many others.  More information, including the minutes of the meeting, and presentations by many of the participants can be found here.  

Approval Of Open Health Tools Governance Documents

On July 25, 2007, representatives from a number of national healthcare agencies and standards agencies approved the governance documents, as part of the preparation for the upcoming founding of Open Health Tools.