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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
Why IT people can’t build information systems
(on their own) Every so often I remember how we were taught to build information systems and software. One of the steps is called ‘requirements capture’. The IT people are supposed to go and interrogate domain experts, in a step called ‘use … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged archetypes, models, openEHR, standards
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The innovations of openEHR
The European Commission is putting together a position on disruptive innovation in health. Their preliminary opinion paper references Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Prescription a number of times, as I did aeons ago in this post on the Crisis in e-health Standards. … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged e-health, EHR, Horizon2020, innovation, openEHR, platform, standards
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New openEHR Whitepaper – for an open platform future
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
Yet another e-health standards comparison, corrected
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
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged fhir, hscic, interoperability, NHS, openEHR
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openEHR in Brazil – Sirio Libanes
openEHR training session last week at Hospital Sirio Libanes, one of the premiere teaching and research hospitals in Brazil. I delivered the background and theory part, Samuel Frade and Bostjan Lah (both from Marand) delivered the programming part. We were … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged archetypes, Brazil, EHR, openEHR, sirio-libanes
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The folly of the obsession with source code
My favourite topic these days is the phenomenon of fundamentalist thinking. You don’t need to go to Iraq to find it, it’s all around us…. Recently I chanced upon a post entitled ‘Coding is not the new literacy’ by Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr, Philosophy
Tagged e-health, NHS, open source, openEHR, software engineering
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Semantic scalability – the core challenge in e-health?
A few months ago I posted on what makes a standard or set of standards in e-health investible. The headline requirements I can summarise as follows: platform-based: the standards must work together in a single coherent technical ecosystem, based on … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged archetype, e-health, models, ontology, openEHR, snomed ct, standards, terminology
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No SQL databases, documents and data – some misunderstandings
A good friend pointed me to this post: why you should never use MongoDB. It’s a very interesting post, about how bad MogoDB turned out to be for dealing with social network data. It’s not that MongoDB is bad per se, just … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged mongodb, nosql, openEHR, persistence
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What is a ‘standard’: legislation or utilisation?
Bert Verhees, a colleague from the openEHR community made this post recently to the openehr-technical mailing list: OpenEHR is not a standard, it is a formal specification. http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards.htm ISO, What is a standard: “A standard is a document that provides requirements, … Continue reading