The Accra Declaration confirmed the support of the two main healthcare interoperability standards Health Level 7 DICOM by the open source community. With the support of major open source advocates, this allowed free and unfettered access to the core healthcare interoperability standards which resulted in a substantial increase in their usage. G Câmara "Information policies and open source software in developing countries" The International Healthcare Modelling Standards Development Organisation (IHMSDO) had earlier placed the intellectual property (IP) of the HL7 and DICOM standards and the IHE profiles into the public domain under the creative commons licence.International Healthcare Modelling Standards Development Organisation - Mission and History
The declaration was signed at the May 2015 IHMSDO Standards and Implementation Meeting in Ghana.Health Service.org/healthcare.php Ghana Health Service supports Interoperability Standards (May 2015)
References
External links International Healthcare Modelling Standards Development Organisation (IHMSDO) HL7.org site HL7 News Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE DICOM FHIR FHIR News