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Tag Archives: Health Informatics
openEHR technical basics for HL7 and FHIR users
Recent discussions on the FHIR chat forum with various HL7 people around the topic of how openEHR and other architectural frameworks (e.g. VA FHIM, CDISC) could work with FHIR led to a realisation that some people in HL7 at least … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged archetype, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, models, openEHR, standards
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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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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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No SQL databases, documents and data – some misunderstandings
A good friend pointed me to this post: why you should never use MongoDB. It’s a very interesting post, about how bad MogoDB turned out to be for dealing with social network data. It’s not that MongoDB is bad per se, just … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged Health Informatics, mongodb, nosql, openEHR, persistence
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Does anyone actually understand what terminology is for?
I really wonder sometimes. A few months ago, an international organisation that has been looking at how to solve the requirement for scalable, sustainable content modelling (research data sets) did some trialling on the use of archetypes. This worked fine … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics
Tagged epistemology, Health Informatics, ontology, terminology
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What is a ‘standard’: legislation or utilisation?
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
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged 13606, CDA, CEN, fhir, Health Informatics, ISO, openEHR, standards
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Health interoperability standards are a pre-platform concept. Discuss.
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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Tagged archetype, CIMI, Health Informatics, openEHR, standards
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