Tag Archives: platform
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
Evolution of EHR solutions – from the proprietary to the post-modern
Tomaz Gornik from Marand, an innovation obsessive (and rightly so) provides a nice write-up of the evolution of solutions from: proprietary => best-of-breed integrated mega-suite => agile, multi-vendor The last is the new world of innovative, agile, mostly cloud-based and multi-vendor solutions. This … Continue reading
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
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
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
ONC Hearing on the JASON Report – openEHR perspective
Recently I was asked to provide testimony to the ONC hearings on the JASON report, from an openEHR point of view. I did so on 31 July 2014. The JASON report is entitled “A Robust Health Data Infrastructure”. It surveys the problems … Continue reading
Why most health IT procurement fails and how to fix it
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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