Category Archives: standards

openEHR Task Planning – heading for implementation

Posted on October 22, 2017 by wolandscat

We’ve made a lot of progress since my last post on this topic. We have published a 1.0.0 version of the openEHR Task Planning specification, which will go into implementation immediately in the City of Moscow e-health project. The current … Continue reading →

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FHIR compared to openEHR

Posted on January 29, 2017 by wolandscat

Ler en Español (traducción – Diego Boscá Tomás) 日本語で読む（Shinji Kobayashi による翻訳） 中文 (Lin Zhang) I see a growing number of organisations and individuals posing the old standards comparison question, today, in the form of: how does HL7 FHIR compare to or relate to … Continue reading →

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Initial foundations for clinical workflow

Posted on January 23, 2017 by wolandscat

Over the last 6 months or so I have been working on two projects, but one theme: implementing computable clinical workflow. For as long as I can remember, ‘workflow’ and ‘process’ are the main words that excite most clinical professionals in health informatics. … Continue reading →

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Making FHIR work for everybody

Posted on December 20, 2015 by wolandscat

FHIR is the HL7’s modern approach to connecting components in the health computing space. Unlike the HL7v2 message approach, FHIR is oriented to enabling applications connect to back-ends. It has been running for a few years now, and is doing good work on how to … Continue reading →

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New openEHR Whitepaper – for an open platform future

Posted on October 21, 2015 by wolandscat

Today saw the release of a new openEHR whitepaper, which provides a nice summary of open platforms thinking for e-health. From the executive summary: The key elements of openEHR’s strategic value to future development are: Technically it is a platform approach, … Continue reading →

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Yet another e-health standards comparison, corrected

Posted on September 25, 2015 by wolandscat

Recently HSCIC and NHS England published an Interoperability Handbook, intended to help provider CIOs and others steer the difficult waters of obtaining interoperable health IT solutions. The target audience is listed as: CCG Clinical Leaders, Chief Clinical Information Officers, Chief … Continue reading →

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A real world CIMI archetype analysis based on Intermountain CEMs

Posted on July 12, 2013 by wolandscat

I have been meaning to blog the recent CIMI meeting (already 10 days ago 😉 but have been buried in ‘work’. So in lieu of that, I’ll put up an analysis of a real use case from Intermountain Health that … Continue reading →

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