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Tag Archives: platform
Why the NHS needs its own health-tech university
The NHS has around one million employees and serves most people in England and Wales. We could easily imagine a slightly larger organisation serving the whole UK, although for historical reasons Scotland and Northern Ireland are separate. Another large public … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged e-health, healthcare IT, NHS, platform
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FHIR v openEHR – concreta
Some readers may have read my previous post FHIR compared to openEHR. If not, I recommend you do, it is available in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese as well as English. Here I aim to clarify some of the concrete differences … Continue reading
Posted in FHIR, Health Informatics, openehr
Tagged e-health, fhir, openEHR, platform, standards
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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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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
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
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Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, openEHR, platform
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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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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
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Tagged Health Informatics, JASON, ONC, openEHR, platform, standards
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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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Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, platform, standards
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What is an ‘open platform’?
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
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, standards
Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, platform, standards
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