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 “It old and outdated” is a common comment.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