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The open e-health platform, coming to an economy near you
I’ve been silent for a while, but luckily an excellent paper on one of my favourite topics – the open platform for e-health has appeared. It comes from the Apperta Foundation, and is called “Defining an Open Platform”; you can get … Continue reading
openEHR Task Planning – heading for implementation
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
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged BPMN, CMMN, task planning, workflow, YAWL
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openEHR Task Planning – progress update
In openEHR, we’ve neatly sidestepped the issue of ‘workflow’ by using the term task planning, which I think better corresponds to the scope we think we can manage. If we were to say we were writing a specification for workflow, … Continue reading
FHIR compared to openEHR
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
Posted in FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged archetypes, fhir, HL7, ISO13606, openEHR
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Initial foundations for clinical workflow
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
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged care pathway, decision support, EHR, healthcare, openEHR, workflow
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Future of the EHR: adaptive clinical workflow support
In the time since I left Ocean Informatics (the company I started with Dr Sam Heard and others in the late 1990s), I have been working with Intermountain Healthcare as well as various other openEHR vendor companies, notably DIPS (Norway) … Continue reading
openEHR technical basics for HL7 and FHIR users
Recent discussions on the FHIR chat forum with various HL7 people around the topic of how openEHR and other architectural frameworks (e.g. VA FHIM, CDISC) could work with FHIR led to a realisation that some people in HL7 at least … Continue reading
e-Health standards – beyond the message mentality
[a monk’s retreat near Thalori village] I just spent a few days in Crete at an experts workshop of the European e-Standards project that aims to bridge well-known gaps in e-health standards and SDOs. I’ll comment on that effort in … Continue reading
Making FHIR work for everybody
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
Evolution of EHR solutions – from the proprietary to the post-modern
Tomaz Gornik from Marand, an innovation obsessive (and rightly so) provides a nice write-up of the evolution of solutions from: proprietary => best-of-breed integrated mega-suite => agile, multi-vendor The last is the new world of innovative, agile, mostly cloud-based and multi-vendor solutions. This … Continue reading