Aug 22, 2010 | EHR, HL7, MESSAGING, SNOMED, STANDARDS
Well we have had the election and there is no clear winner but it appears that the Rudd/Gillard government is the loser. eHealth is up for some reassessment and it certainly needs some. From all reports $5 Billion of taxpayers money has been spent over the last 10...
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 “It old and outdated” is a common comment.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...
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...
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...
Feb 18, 2007 | EHR, HL7, STANDARDS
An observation, that has become more marked with time is the lack of technical people at HL7 meetings and Standards related activities. This is a concern and most likely part of the eHealth “Problems” This is matched by an increase in managers and bureaucrats in the...
Dec 21, 2006 | HL7, STANDARDS
While everyone talks about moving to rich Semantic communication as if it is the next step, the reality is somewhat different. Medical-Objects has the ability to enable communication between applications and to some this ability is somewhat of a mystery. The answer is...
