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Category Archives: Computing
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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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
Posted in Computing, FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged archetype, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, models, openEHR, standards
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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
Posted in Computing, FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged e-health, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, ISO, openEHR, standards
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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
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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An Asciidoctor IDE wish list
A while ago I blogged on why we replaced FrameMaker with Asciidoctor for the technical publishing function of openEHR.org. At around that time I posted on an Asciidoctor mailing list my wishlist for Asciidoctor. I reproduce that list here. As … Continue reading
Goodbye to Adobe FrameMaker, Hello AsciiDoctor
I am probably one of the longest time users of Adobe FrameMaker in the world. I started using it at version 2, sometime around 1990, and finished with it a few months ago. For most of this period it was … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged asciidoctor, framemaker, publishing
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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, Health Informatics, NHS, open source, openEHR, software engineering
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Windows 8 Metro, high DPI screen chaos, and other epic fails of modern life
Windows 8 – a Lesson in Corporate Schizophrenia Recently I moved up to a Dell XPS 15 (fast i7 machine) with Windows 8.1, from an old Dell with Windows 7. I am now, along with the rest of us, suffering … Continue reading
Posted in Computing
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