Tag Archives: CIMI

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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Health interoperability standards are a pre-platform concept. Discuss.

Posted on 02/10/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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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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Why clinical models are essential to big data

Posted on 11/03/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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CIMI – time for clinician collaboration?

Posted on 08/11/2013 by wolandscat

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 →

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What is a ‘clinical statement’?

Posted on 30/07/2013 by wolandscat

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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A real world CIMI archetype analysis based on Intermountain CEMs

Posted on 12/07/2013 by wolandscat

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 →

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