messaging Archives

ePIP Sample Written Policy

Jan 21, 2013 | Announcements

To help in the creation of the General Practice secure messaging written policy We have supplied an example that was authored by the RACGP http://www.racgp.org.au Please see the following link to obtain a copy of the Sample Written Policy Click Here to get the Sample...

Extreme e-Health – what’s gone wrong?

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...

Medical-Objects is now connecting over 3300 active health practices

Jul 19, 2011 | Announcements

Medical-Objects is now connecting over 3300 active health practices with over 17,000 providers and counting! That Making ourselves the most popular messaging client in both Australia and Queensland

Australian eHealth still at the Cross Roads!

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...

NASH, Lies and Ideologically Driven Architecture

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...