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Category Archives: Computing
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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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 Health Informatics, 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
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged 13606, CDA, CEN, fhir, Health Informatics, ISO, openEHR, standards
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Health interoperability standards are a pre-platform concept. Discuss.
There is a growing recognition that we need an open platform concept to solve e-health interoperability and reuse problems. Some evidence of this I noted in my recent post ‘What is an open platform’, including various US-based cross vendor platform … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, standards
Tagged archetype, CIMI, Health Informatics, openEHR, standards
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What is an ‘open platform’?
The word ‘platform’ is starting to reach the same status as the word ‘internet’ – part of the bedrock, but many have no idea what it really is. In e-health particularly, ‘platform’ is often mixed up with ‘open source’, ‘APIs’ and ‘standards’ … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, standards
Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, platform, standards
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Archetype unification proposal – node identifiers
happy new year and best wishes for 2014. I hope your new year’s day is a bright one (unless you live in the UK, in which case it’s a lost cause here today 😉 I have been working … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, standards
Tagged 13606, archetype, e-health, IHTSDO, openEHR, standards
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The real reason most software fails
To my mind there is a problem in academia to do with where disciplines like ‘computer science’ (CS) and applications of computing sit. Pure computer science is the study of computational theory and applications. It develops things like data structures, … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Culture, Health Informatics, Philosophy
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Identifying complex knowledge artefacts
Based on a lot of experience, thinking and gnashing of teeth of colleagues Ian McNicoll, Heather Leslie, Sebastian Garde who work on the Ocean Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) product, as well as many others using archetypes and archetype tools more … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged archetype, DCM, e-health, Health Informatics, openEHR, standards
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DCMs & archetypes – why we need 3 layers
This post is inspired by a slightly out-of-control discussion among people in the CIMI group. It’s a good discussion. The latest question that has come up is whether a DCM (Detailed Clinical Model) is a ‘model of use’ (i.e. some … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged archetype, DCM, e-health, Health Informatics, hl7 rim, openEHR, snomed ct
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