2026-07-20 SEC Call notes

Bostjan Lah

General

• check and work with: https://openehr.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/SEC/board?filter=&groupBy=status

• new SEC Expert panel member: Jelte Zeilstra Nedap, NL

• Hayley McDougall wishes to join and observe the meetings

• Latest version of ToR approved by the Board

Sebastian Iancu

EHRCon26

• EHRCon26 Pre-conf: Sep 21, 2026 (conf is on 22-23 Sep 2026)

  • SEC+CPB: 15:15 - 17:15

  • SEC alone: 09:00 - 15:00

  • program might change to make room for a strategic meeting with the Board (CEO Jordi) => SEC+CPB will be cancelled.

    • suggestion from the SEC to cancel the SEC+CPB in favor of strategic meeting with the Board - and the rest can still continue the SEC meeting

Sebastian Iancu

Releases

• Released https://openehr.atlassian.net/projects/SPECITS/versions/12529/tab/release-report-all-issues

Sebastian Iancu

ADL 2.4 WG report - issues remaining

• Seref Arikan once the ADL2.4 is release, will the CDRs be ready to accept and validate data instances? Do we have the logic of backporting ADL2.4 to OPT.1.4? The risk is OPT drift between vendors.

• waiting for Sebastian Iancu working on BASE, RM

• https://github.com/openEHR/specifications-BASE/pull/20

Sebastian Iancu

UML2BMM

• BASE

  • BMM PR is merged to master branch

• LANG refactored in order to:

  • have a formal BMM v2 next to (paused) v3 => retrofit BASE 1.0.3 BMM specs from 2017 into LANG

  • formalize P_BMM 2.4 additions (functions, invariants, constants, etc

  • formalize json and yaml serialization

  • based on it own bmm json file

  • will release https://openehr.atlassian.net/projects/SPECLANG/versions/12557/tab/release-report-all-issues

  • Bostjan Lah improve the descriptions of the specification page, make it more clear the need, when should vs used vs the other

• ITS-BMM

  • publishes json, yaml, odin serialized variants

  • github action or webhook sync from specifications-* repositories on /computable/BMM directory

  • makefile and

    • target cmd to import json

    • target cmd to generate odin and yaml (copies, do not edit)

Sebastian Iancu

Severin Kohler

Using Antora for publishing the specs

https://github.com/sebastian-iancu/antora-openehr

Rendered at: https://sebastian-iancu.github.io/antora-openehr/BASE/Release-1.2.0/

Discussion

https://discourse.openehr.org/t/working-for-a-new-openehr-specifications-website-with-antora/11694

• prepare to move repo to github openehr in July, mix it current website

• => no updates or work on this lately

Sebastian Iancu

AI & spec work

• using Claude code & Cursor with a Discourse and Atlassian MCP

• specifications websites provides llms.txt and specification in markdown

• openehr specification editing skills ai-plugins

• tool bmm-publisher bmm → asciidoc tabels and tabs

• helpful as kb: openehr-assistant-mcp and openehr-assistan-plugin

IHE & FHIR (EHDS)

• IHE is interested in working with SEC on IHE profiles with openEHR (follow up on Brussel meeting)

• Ian McNicoll focus on a couple of use cases (European PS, EyeCare) starting with modeling

• using FHIR IG but with openEHR models

Rong Chen

CDS WG

• no updates for now,

• specs to be presented to the next REST API WG meeting

Ian McNicoll

Review on Foundation Board proposal on process of changing license

• we are still in awaiting for feedback from the Board

Ian McNicoll still stuck at board level

Ian McNicoll

Public Health RM

• PH work is not about a person, about about an incident

• it is technically an EHR but not of a person, without a subject

• Severin Kohler we need also the “Location”

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Severin Kohler

Cancer modelling alignment

Link with Erik Sundvall and Michelena Vegas, Xabier

Severin Kohler

github commits without reviews

Ian McNicoll proposes to change the owner and make sure review process is followed

Severin Kohler proposal: chair, co-chair and OpenEHR International admin should be owners Bostjan Lah to send this as a proposal to the board

Bostjan LahSeref Arikanownership should be with OpenEHR International and maintained by admin

Bostjan Lah to check with SebI if this already applies to all repos

Conclusions:

• work with an admin github account for admin actions (“owner account is not the working account”)

• min 1 reviewer per PR

• ownership transfer to Co-chairs + Marcus (delegated by openEHR Board)