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HL7 V2 just keeps on keeping on

Aug 1, 2010 | EHR, HL7, MESSAGING, STANDARDS

It is interesting that so many people are keen to rubbish the encoding of HL7 V2 data. “It old and outdated” is a common comment. After a serious amount of time playing with it and experimenting with many encodings I am now convinced its brilliant. The “xml will solve...

eHealth – What is going wrong?

May 24, 2010 | EHR, HL7, STANDARDS, Uncategorized

Its clear that I am not a fan of Australia’s attempts to progress eHealth. Its probably time to look at some details. The devil is in the details after all. The first basic error of HealthConnect and NEHTA Mark 1 & 2 is a violation of a principle that I think is...

eHealth – Where is the duty of care?

Apr 27, 2010 | EHR, STANDARDS

After watching the failure of the Government Home Insulation Scheme and the Payroll issues with Queensland Health unfold its clear that the eHealth issues in Australia are part of a much bigger problem. There is enormous potential for eHealth to cause damage and there...

NEHTA – On the road to nowhere?

Mar 30, 2010 | DECISION SUPPORT, EHR, HL7, MESSAGING, STANDARDS

National Health IT programs do not have a good record of success in general, and Australia has been a good example of that to date. I don’t think anything is about to change. The reasons for this will no doubt be well understood in time, as history looks back and...

Why is Health IT so hard?

Dec 28, 2008 | DECISION SUPPORT, EHR, GELLO, STANDARDS

Every now and again someone decides that health IT is obviously doing something wrong and they are going to fix it. This is a familiar call, often made by well meaning bureaucracy and its part of the problem and not part of the solution. Health IT is hard and its...