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Making FHIR work for everybody

Posted on 20/12/2015 by wolandscat

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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What is a ‘standard’: legislation or utilisation?

Posted on 25/10/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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openEHR 2014 Roadmap Meeting, Sep 16/17, Oslo

Posted on 22/09/2014 by wolandscat

Last week saw the first major face-to-face international openEHR community meeting, which took place in Lilletstrom, near Oslo, at premises kindly organised by DIPS asa, openEHR Industry Partner and major EHR supplier in Norway.

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Evaluating e-health standards II – governance and commercial aspects

Posted on 20/08/2014 by wolandscat

Following on from my post yesterday, Grahame Grieve commented that I had not dealt with issues of stability and commercial acceptability. I had not originally intended to do that, but on reflection, he is right – a standard that is … Continue reading →

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Beyond the hype: evaluating e-health standards

Posted on 19/08/2014 by wolandscat

A new e-health standard comes along every couple of years. In Gartner hype cycle terms, it starts out on the rise toward the ‘peak of inflated expectations’, then falls into the ‘trough of disillusionment’, before either dying or rising again … Continue reading →

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Archetype unification proposal – node identifiers

Posted on 01/01/2014 by wolandscat

    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 →

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CIMI: purpose-built or jury-rigged?

Posted on 14/11/2011 by wolandscat

In recent weeks, the Clinical Information Modelling Initiative (CIMI), led by Stan Huff, has followed its stated process and is nearing a voting process in which a shared health domain modelling formalism is chosen. Proponents of each of the candidate … Continue reading →

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The crisis in e-health standards III – solutions

Posted on 18/10/2009 by wolandscat

Prev: The crisis in e-health standards IIa Stakeholder Aspirations and Needs Before going so far as to offer a solution to the e-health standards problem, I want to have a look at what we consider to be the requirements that … Continue reading →

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The crisis in e-health standards II

Posted on 01/10/2009 by wolandscat

Evidence for the inability of SDOs to create a coherent ecosystem of standards for e-health Continue reading →

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