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Tag Archives: e-health
A FHIR Experience – the formalism
This post continues the review presented in the previous post, where I looked at the Administrative resources of FHIR. Here I take a look at the formalism used in FHIR, i.e. how the resources (and profiles) are formally expressed. FHIR … Continue reading
Posted in FHIR, Health Informatics, standards
Tagged e-health, fhir, HL7, interoperability
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A FHIR experience: consistently inconsistent
In recent work I am involved in, the HL7 FHIR DSTU4 resources were converted to the openEHR formalism known as Basic Meta-Model (BMM), which is published as an open specification. BMM is an object-oriented formalism, conceptually similar to UML (minus … Continue reading
Why the NHS needs its own health-tech university
The NHS has around one million employees and serves most people in England and Wales. We could easily imagine a slightly larger organisation serving the whole UK, although for historical reasons Scotland and Northern Ireland are separate. Another large public … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged e-health, healthcare IT, NHS, platform
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The long slow death of UML
The Unified Modelling Language aka UML has been around for 22 years, as you can see from the OMG UML page. We use it extensively to publish the openEHR specifications, in a similar way to many other organisations. Developers often … Continue reading
Services Landscape for e-Health
Every so often I get bored of what I am doing and start trying to draw one of those ‘services roadmap’ kind of diagrams for e-Health. These pretty pictures appear in slide presentations, standards, whitepapers etc, but are not often … Continue reading
FHIR v openEHR – concreta
Some readers may have read my previous post FHIR compared to openEHR. If not, I recommend you do, it is available in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese as well as English. Here I aim to clarify some of the concrete differences … Continue reading
Posted in FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged e-health, fhir, openEHR, platform, standards
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The open e-health platform, coming to an economy near you
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
e-Health standards – beyond the message mentality
[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
Posted in Computing, FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged e-health, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, ISO, openEHR, standards
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The innovations of openEHR
The European Commission is putting together a position on disruptive innovation in health. Their preliminary opinion paper references Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Prescription a number of times, as I did aeons ago in this post on the Crisis in e-health Standards. … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged e-health, EHR, Horizon2020, innovation, openEHR, platform, standards
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New openEHR Whitepaper – for an open platform future
Today saw the release of a new openEHR whitepaper, which provides a nice summary of open platforms thinking for e-health. From the executive summary: The key elements of openEHR’s strategic value to future development are: Technically it is a platform approach, … Continue reading
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Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, openEHR, platform
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