Find answers to common questions about GOSEHR and cityEHR
GOSEHR was launched at a summit meeting held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in March 2024. Fordham University runs the Education program and co-ordinates the Research Program, which also involves academics from the University of Oxford (UK), the University of Victoria (Canada), the Norwegian eHealth Research Center, the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (Ukraine) and the African Digital Health Research Institute.
GOSEHR is supported by funding from Seven Informatics Ltd, a company based in the UK, together with grant and donor funding.
Local deployment of cityEHR is made by Community Companies operating in each target country, supported by Seven Informatics which develops, supports and maintains the core cityEHR product.
The GOSEHR initiative uses the cityEHR open source EHR, a web-based, model-driven system that uses ontology models of healthcare information and is based on over 15 years of academic research. More information is available at openhealthinformatics.org
cityEHR is an Enterprise Java application that is deployed on an application server, such as Apache Tomcat, accessed through a web browser. As such it can be deployed on a local machine, a local server or through a cloud service.
cityEHR stores patient records as XML, using the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). Records can be imported and exported as HL7 CDA or as XML compatible with the structure of ISO 13606. When deployed in conjunction with the open source Mirth integration engine, cityEHR can interoperate systems supporting HL7 v2 or HL7 FHIR.
cityEHR is primarily a model-driven Electronic Health Records system. It can be deployed in any clinical setting in primary or secondary care, including the physician's office, clinics, community hospitals or larger acute hospitals.
Each deployment is driven by a clinical information which is developed specifically for that care setting, to record the structured clinical information required for clinical care and for research studies.
As well as the management of health records, cityEHR has features for care pathways, ordering, prescribing, scheduling and clinic booking.
cityEHR is open source software, released under the LGPL open source license. It is free to use, under the conditions of the LGPL license. The source code is developed and maintained by Seven Informatics Ltd.
Implementation, support and maintenance can be provided by healthcare providers themselves or by locally based organisations which generally charge for these services.
Through the GOSEHR initiative, local NGOs, healthcare providers and community-based companies receive the education and training required to implement and support local installations.
GOSEHR is supported by education and research programs led by Fordham University, which is based in New York, US. The research program includes university partners in the different regions in which cityEHR installations are made.
The Education Program is delivered through the Applied Health Informatics Masters program, which is developed and released under a Creative Commons license, together with individual courses, workshops and seminars, based around the principles of Open Health Informatics.
Further information about Open Health Informatics is available at openhealthinformatics.org
GOSEHR supports doctoral and post-doctoral research positions, as part of the University Research Program, studying attitudes and opportunities related to open source EHR and evaluating cityEHR installations.
Results of the research program are published through international conferences and journals.
There are many ways to get involved with GOSEHR:
Contact us at cio@gosehr.org to learn more.
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