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RDF for universal health data exchange? Correcting some basic misconceptions…
Something called the “Yosemite manifesto on RDF as a Universal Healthcare Exchange Language” was published in 2013 as the Group position statement of the Workshop on RDF as a Universal Healthcare Exchange Language held at the 2013 Semantic Technology and Business … Continue reading
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Tagged e-health, openEHR, RDF, semantic web, standards, yosemite manifesto
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Why most health IT procurement fails and how to fix it
A strange thing happens in health IT solution procurement, and by extension government initiatives that seek to influence it. See if you can disagree with the following characterisation of health provider organisations as solution purchasers. Think You’re Getting What You Want? CIOs … Continue reading
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
Why clinical models are essential to big data
I attended HIMSS 2014 in the mammoth convention centre in Orlando 10 days ago, and went to a session on ‘Clinical Decision Support – is progress being made?’. Despite this being the dead Thursday of HIMSS, around 50 people showed … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged archetype, CIMI, DCM, HL7, openEHR, order sets, 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
CIMI – time for clinician collaboration?
How can CIMI ‘standard’ clinical models be created? In CIMI, we mostly seem to assume two pathways: de novo authoring, e.g. with an archetype tool that consumes the CIMI RM accession and conversion of external models, e.g. CEMs, openEHR, 13606, … Continue reading
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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ADL/AOM 1.5 (major) progress update
I have been working for some years on the side on the long overdue Archetype Definition Language (ADL) 1.5 and Archetype Object Model (AOM) 1.5 specifications (dev page). I have made some major progress just recently, of the ‘nice’ kind, … Continue reading
What is a ‘clinical statement’?
In the CIMI forum, a debate is raging about this question. It might partly be my fault for daring to question some things in the reference model, but having done that, various participants are indeed arguing. So that’s a vindication … Continue reading
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Tagged CIMI, DCM, e-health
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A real world CIMI archetype analysis based on Intermountain CEMs
I have been meaning to blog the recent CIMI meeting (already 10 days ago 😉 but have been buried in ‘work’. So in lieu of that, I’ll put up an analysis of a real use case from Intermountain Health that … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, standards
Tagged archetype, CIMI, models
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