The expected outcomes of the workshop include:
- Understand the current landscape on EHRs
- Survey current practices and identify best strategies to be used as models
- Begin to develop requirements, technologies, standards and best practices for long-term preservation and life-cycle management on EHRs
- Differentiate between requirements for patient care and those for secondary use
- Identify cultural and technological challenges
- Catalog current legal requirements for retention of EHRs
- Identify interested collaborators to form a WG on this area
- Discuss possible test scenarios and datasets for collaboration and testbed