HL7 Archives

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 “It old and outdated” is a common comment.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...

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...

Where are all the technical people?

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...

A Plea for Standards

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...

Medical-Objects Integrates Using AS2 and SOAP

Aug 26, 2006 | EHR, HL7, SOAP, STANDARDS

At the recent Australian HIC 2006 Conference Medical-objects was involved in some way with virtually every scenario in the Interoperability demo. In fact the demo ran on the new realtime HL7 client Capricorn. As usual many lessons were learned, more than in months of...