Aug 14, 2026 | Announcements, HL7, MESSAGING, STANDARDS
HL7 and FHIR in Australia: Building Practical Healthcare Interoperability Australia is accelerating its use of FHIR APIs, national standards and secure digital health information exchange. The Australian Digital Health Agency’s 2025–26 progress report...
Oct 23, 2011 | DECISION SUPPORT, EHR, HL7, MESSAGING, SOAP, STANDARDS
Extreme failure in e-Health programs is in the news and Australia, as it usually does, appears destined to repeat the mistakes of others. There is clearly a fundamental error in the approach to the problem and like the global financial crisis, I would postulate the...
Jan 2, 2011 | EHR, HL7, MESSAGING, SNOMED, STANDARDS
It’s interesting that there is such a emphasis on xml as the solution when its just an encoding format. I implemented HL7V2 (classic) <–> HL7V2 (xml) functionality about 7 years ago but have found no real world use cases or demand for it as all it does is bloat...
Sep 25, 2010 | EHR, HL7, MESSAGING, SOAP, STANDARDS
Like many people, the idea of e-Health excited me in the mid 1990’s and I got the bug, and wanted to contribute to it. After 15 years, countless standards meetings and international plane trips to attend meetings I would expect us to be further ahead than we are. In...
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 “It old and outdated” is a common comment.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...
