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Category Archives: Computing
Why the platform will replace today’s interoperability standards in healthcare
For decades, most of us working in health informatics and e-health have lived on the assumption that ‘interoperability’ is one of the main things we are trying to achieve, and that it is the most important because the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged fhir, interoperability, ISO, openEHR, platform, standards
9 Comments
openEHR Basic Meta-Model (BMM) and syntax major upgrade
The openEHR Basic Meta-Model (BMM) that has been in use in some form for nearly 10 years now was recently upgraded to version 3.0.0 (from 2.x), with the persistence format (now called P_BMM) being backwards-compatibly upgraded to version 2.3. The … Continue reading
Standards or toilet paper? A Linus Torvalds reality check
Linus Torvalds, rightly praised for his literary flair and subtlety, serves up a classic today, on the topic of standards and when to just forget about them.
Will the tech giants ever succeed at e-Health?
Amazon, Apple, and Google are all having another go at e-Health. But we have been here before: remember Microsoft HealthVault? It’s still around, and still hasn’t taken off. Google Health went live in 2008, but was retired at end of … 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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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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