Category Archives: FHIR

Major German research project chooses openEHR

Posted on 20/06/2018 by

I just returned from Heidelberg, where another very successful ‘openEHR day’ was held, this time by the HiGHmed research consortium, with 100 attendees. HiGHmed is funded with 20m€ by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the … Continue reading →

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The open e-health platform, coming to an economy near you

Posted on 18/11/2017 by

I’ve been silent for a while, but luckily an excellent paper on one of my favourite topics – the open platform for e-health has appeared. It comes from the Apperta Foundation, and is called “Defining an Open Platform”; you can get … Continue reading →

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FHIR compared to openEHR

Posted on 29/01/2017 by

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 →

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openEHR technical basics for HL7 and FHIR users

Posted on 10/04/2016 by

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 →

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e-Health standards – beyond the message mentality

Posted on 05/04/2016 by

[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 →

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Making FHIR work for everybody

Posted on 20/12/2015 by

FHIR is the HL7’s modern approach to connecting components in the health computing space. Unlike the HL7v2 message approach, FHIR is oriented to enabling applications connect to back-ends. It has been running for a few years now, and is doing good work on how to … Continue reading →

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