Integration Information Model

The work reported in this paper has been funded in part by the following organisations:

Special thanks to David Ingram, Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at UCL, who provided a vision and collegial working environment ever since the days of GEHR (1992).

This document describes the architecture of the openEHR Integration Information Model, designed for use in legacy and other integration situations.

The intended audience includes:

Prerequisite documents for reading this document include:

This specification is in the Stable state. The development version of this document can be found at https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/RM/latest/integration.html.

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Conformance of a data or software artifact to an openEHR 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 derivations from underlying models, ITS conformance indicates model conformance.