About OpenECG

OpenECG seeks to consolidate interoperability efforts in computerized electrocardiography at the European and international level, encouraging the use of standards. The OpenECG portal will provide free assistance, conformance validation, and interoperability testing. OpenECG plans to establish a forum for the discussion of problems and the sharing of experience in interoperability efforts involving SCP-ECG, an internationally recognised European standard. OpenECG will bring together the stakeholders in the adoption of computerized electrocardiography standards in Information Days, Workshops and a Software Contest for open source tools, to further stimulate the adoption of computerized electrocardiography standards. The long-term goal of the OpenECG network is to gradually extend the focus on the cooperative use of standards to other cardiology examinations such as stress ECG, Holter, and ECG monitoring.

An important objective of OpenECG is to bring the SCP-ECG (Standard Communications Protocol for Computer-Assisted Electrocardiography) to life by supporting specific implementations and applications. This ECG Standard is the result of an EU supported project that European, American and Japanese Manufacturers and Users have jointly worked and agreed on (1989-1990). In 1993 it became a European ENV, later positively balloted within AAMI (AAMI EC71), and is currently a new work item proposal to IEC TC/SC 62 WG1 and ISO TC215.