Author Archives: wolandscat
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
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
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
The e-Health platform as a standards integration project
[image: (c) 2014 Imogen Brand Rakers Photography] I have argued for an open platform approach in e-Health for some years now, as have others (Ewan Davis’s Nobody Can Own the Platform post is a nice summary of the issue). It’s clear that … Continue reading
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