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Tag Archives: standards
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
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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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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
Posted in Computing, Health Informatics, standards
Tagged archetype, CIMI, Health Informatics, 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
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Tagged 13606, e-health, fhir, Health Informatics, HL7, ISO, openEHR, 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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RDF for universal health data exchange? Correcting some basic misconceptions…
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
Posted in Health Informatics
Tagged e-health, Health Informatics, openEHR, RDF, semantic web, standards, yosemite manifesto
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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
Posted in Health Informatics, standards
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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