Tag Archives: e-health

The folly of the obsession with source code

Posted on 20/02/2015 by wolandscat

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 →

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Semantic scalability – the core challenge in e-health?

Posted on 15/12/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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Barriers to open source in the NHS

Posted on 08/11/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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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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RDF for universal health data exchange? Correcting some basic misconceptions…

Posted on 08/08/2014 by wolandscat

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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Why most health IT procurement fails and how to fix it

Posted on 20/05/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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What is an ‘open platform’?

Posted on 07/05/2014 by wolandscat

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 →

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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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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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Identifying complex knowledge artefacts

Posted on 24/04/2013 by wolandscat

Based on a lot of experience, thinking and gnashing of teeth of colleagues Ian McNicoll, Heather Leslie, Sebastian Garde who work on the Ocean Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) product, as well as many others using archetypes and archetype tools more … Continue reading →

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