Sweden’s largest university hospital, ranked the 7th best hospital in Newsweek magazine’s “World’s Best Hospitals” ranking, set its openEHR strategy years ago and has all this time been actively involved in the community. The target vision for the new healthcare data platform was set in their 2022 Annual Review, with the openEHR clinical data repository being the foundation of the future architecture. All new systems will evolve from this, creating a new ecosystem of self-developed and partner-developed applications, as well as adding the eventual new journal system, which is currently in the procurement process by the Stockholm region, as the existing EMR will be phased out in the coming years.
Better platform will help achieve this vision. Its modular architecture, based on a vendor-neutral CDR powered by openEHR and low-code tools, will allow the university hospital and other healthcare actors within Sweden’s capital region to expand successively and flexibly when developing in-house applications with minimal dependencies on external vendors. By controlling the development process, it will significantly improve cost control and the pace of deliveries as well as lower the project risks, as the platform approach enables the hospital to grow incrementally.
Tomaž Gornik, CEO and founder of Better, commented: “Being selected as the core data platform by one of the best hospitals in the world is a testament to our work and commitment to openEHR over the past 15 years. Technically, this framework is one of the most demanding procurements, pushing the technology beyond today’s boundaries. This is a great motivation for us to constantly improve our technology for the future, staying ahead, and being the driving force in the care transformation journey.”
The duration of the framework agreement contract is four years with a possible extension for two additional years. The platform will be delivered by Better’s local partner TietoEvry, who will be priming the contract. The framework includes two more lots: Area 2 covers openEHR-related tools, and Area 3 covers openEHR-related services, for which the call-offs have yet to be issued.
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Better transforms healthcare organisations with Better platform, an open data digital health platform, designed to store, manage, query, retrieve, and exchange structured electronic health records, Better Meds, electronic prescribing, and medication administration solution, and the low-code Studio, which allows applications to be built rapidly at a fraction of the cost. The company focuses on simplifying the work of health and care teams, advocates for data for life, and strives for all health data to be vendor-neutral and easily accessible. It puts organisations in control of their data, workflows, and transformation plans in order to improve patient care. Better has provided solutions across more than 20 markets all over the world, among them being the UK, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Finland, Greece, Malta, Nigeria, Thailand, Indonesia, and others. The Better platform securely supports over 30 million patients.
