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openEHR included in Microsoft's Connected Health Framework

Microsoft's newly released Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint includes references to the role and use of openEHR for the first time. 

"The Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint represents a vendor-agnostic set of best practices and approach based on Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), for architecting e-Health solutions for health information networks ranging from within health organizations to across multiple government agencies.

The main objectives for the Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint are:

• Highlight a series of best practices for service oriented health information and collaboration architecture
• Enable the development of an ecosystems of solutions developed along these guidelines"

Specific references to openEHR and/or archetypes occur in:

Part 1 - pp. 43, 44, 46

Part 2 - pp. 92, 159, 160