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Tag Archives: ISO
Why using HIT standards fails to achieve interoperability
I started working in the Health IT area in 1994, on a major European Commission funded project. I attended years of standards meetings at HL7, CEN and occasionally OMG and ISO from 1999 to about 2012. And I’ve observed the … Continue reading
Why the platform will replace today’s interoperability standards in healthcare
For decades, most of us working in health informatics and e-health have lived on the assumption that ‘interoperability’ is one of the main things we are trying to achieve, and that it is the most important because the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged fhir, interoperability, ISO, openEHR, platform, standards
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Standards or toilet paper? A Linus Torvalds reality check
Linus Torvalds, rightly praised for his literary flair and subtlety, serves up a classic today, on the topic of standards and when to just forget about them.
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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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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Evaluating e-health standards II – governance and commercial aspects
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
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged 13606, CDA, CIMI, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, ISO, openEHR, 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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DCM – Data Types and Reference Model considerations
Following the DCM meeting convened by Dr Stan Huff (Intermountain Healthcare) in Washington in July, reported in an earlier blog post, there is a further meeting this week in San Diego, which will discuss the issues of ‘data types’ and … Continue reading
The HL7 Null Flavor Debate – part 1
(With apologies to those who use international English and normally spell it as ‘flavour’; in this post, I will spell it properly in informal text, and in the US way when referring to the formal HL7 null flavour concept.) Grahame … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged data types, Health Informatics, HL7, ISO, ISO 21090, models, openEHR, standards
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The crisis in e-health standards III – solutions
Prev: The crisis in e-health standards IIa Stakeholder Aspirations and Needs Before going so far as to offer a solution to the e-health standards problem, I want to have a look at what we consider to be the requirements that … Continue reading
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Tagged 13606, ehealth, Health Informatics, HL7, IHTSDO, ISO, openEHR, standards
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