Tag Archives: openEHR

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

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One information model to rule them all?

One of the age-old debates in health informatics: can there be ‘one information model’ for shared clinical information? Some dream of a model to rule them all, uniting standards efforts, while others dismiss the idea as impossible or unrealistic. Obviously … Continue reading

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How could HL7 refresh?

Continuing on from the basis established in the previous post, here I will say what I think HL7 could do to help here. My suggestions are as follows:

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The crisis in e-health standards III – solutions

Prev: The crisis in e-health standards IIa Stakeholder Aspirations and Needs Before going so far as to offer a solution to the e-health standards problem, I want to have a look at what we consider to be the requirements that … Continue reading

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The crisis in e-health standards II

Evidence for the inability of SDOs to create a coherent ecosystem of standards for e-health Continue reading

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