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Tag Archives: e-health
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
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, openEHR, platform
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The folly of the obsession with source code
My favourite topic these days is the phenomenon of fundamentalist thinking. You don’t need to go to Iraq to find it, it’s all around us…. Recently I chanced upon a post entitled ‘Coding is not the new literacy’ by Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr, Philosophy
Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, NHS, open source, openEHR, software engineering
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Semantic scalability – the core challenge in e-health?
A few months ago I posted on what makes a standard or set of standards in e-health investible. The headline requirements I can summarise as follows: platform-based: the standards must work together in a single coherent technical ecosystem, based on … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged archetype, e-health, Health Informatics, models, ontology, openEHR, snomed ct, standards, terminology
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Barriers to open source in the NHS
There is a discussion going on on the NHS Technology Community site on what the barriers to open source are in the NHS, and how to address them. The posts are interesting, but one thing is lacking: a statement of what it … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged e-health, HANDI, Health Informatics, NHS, open source, platform, standards
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Beyond the hype: evaluating e-health standards
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
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged 13606, e-health, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, ISO, openEHR, standards
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