Jun 17, 2009 | EHR, STANDARDS, Uncategorized
There appears to be a mood of desperation in some areas of the eHealth brigade and even suggestions that we move forward with proprietary formats. This would be a huge mistake. The best example at the moment is attempts, in Australia, to push openEHR formats over the...
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...
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 | DECISION SUPPORT, EHR, GELLO, SNOMED, STANDARDS
It’s and awesome combination. Thats the feeling we have after completing the first round of integration between our GELLO interpreter and our SNOMED-CT server. One simple Method “.implies” has some much power in a multiple inheritance hierarchy like SNOMED-CT. For...
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...
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...