The Accra Declaration confirmed the support of the two main healthcare
interoperability
Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader defi ...
standards by the
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
community. With the support of major open source advocates, this allowed free and unfettered access to the core healthcare interoperability standards which resulted in a substantial increase in their usage. The International Healthcare Modelling Standards Development Organisation (
IHMSDO) had earlier placed the
intellectual property
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(IP) of the
HL7
Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "la ...
and
DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data. DICOM is most commonly used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integ ...
standards and the
IHE profiles into the public domain under the
creative commons
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licence.
The declaration was signed at the May 2015 IHMSDO Standards and Implementation Meeting in Ghana.
[http://www.]Ghana Health Service
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is a Ghanaian government body established in 1996 as part of the Health Sector Reform of Ghana. The Health Service is under the Ministry of Health. The Health service primarily administrates the health services prov ...
.org/healthcare.php Ghana Health Service supports Interoperability Standards (May 2015)
References
External links
International Healthcare Modelling Standards Development Organisation(IHMSDO)
HL7.org siteHL7 NewsIntegrating the Healthcare EnterpriseIHE
DICOMFHIRFHIR News
Interoperability