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The HL7 Null Flavor Debate – part 1
(With apologies to those who use international English and normally spell it as ‘flavour’; in this post, I will spell it properly in informal text, and in the US way when referring to the formal HL7 null flavour concept.) Grahame … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged data types, HL7, ISO, ISO 21090, models, openEHR, standards
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What needs fixing in e-health?
or, e-health seen through the prism of an ancient pantheon of gods… Grahame Grieve’s recent blog entry on the HL7 Fresh Look Task Force seems a good excuse for me to have another big picture look at e-health. The fact … Continue reading
Ruminations on ‘design’ in e-health
I have often bemoaned the state of standards for the e-health sector. Earlier posts provide details. The main argument is that the key specifications the sector needs are for interoperable data, information and knowledge, but that the main approach to … Continue reading
Future of Software Engineering? Quite possibly…
I was in Zurich last week (Nov 21-25) for the Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) symposium, held at ETH Zurich university campus on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Bertrand Meyer, the inventor of the Eiffel programming language, which … Continue reading