I am pleased to have the opportunity to include in this blog a report of positive experiences with the HL7 v3, received from Marek Vaclavik, who writes:
… most of my colleagues disagreed on your learnability assessment of the HL7 v3 technology. Using HL7 v3 as a messaging standard does not require a profound knowledge of [...]
From the HL7 Terminfo forum we read the following (posted by Rik Smithies) about the extension to the RIM created by the Connecting for Health initiative in the UK:
Statement Relationships are a UK/CFH invention I believe, that hasn’t gained wide acceptance elsewhere, perhaps because there hasn’ been a strong push, perhaps because our requirements are [...]
An announcement with the title “HL7 Reference Information Model Becomes ISO Standard” was recently posted at the http://www.hl7.org/ website by: Health Level Seven, Inc.
So that’s clear, then. HL7 Reference Information Model has become an ISO standard.
Governments with centralized healthcare systems, as we know, like to embrace international standards; and they have been known to invest [...]
by Gerard Freriks, former chairman of CEN TC251 WG1.
(a statement of opinions, extracted from the OpenEHR e-mail list)
Harmonisation between CEN EN13606 EHRcom and HL7v2 is not taking place.
Harmonisation between CEN EN13606 plus its Archetypes and HL7v3 message artefacts is not possible.
Harmonisation between CEN and HL7 on the level of Archetypes as performed by humans using [...]
This panel will take place at 3.30-5 p.m. on Tuesday November 14 as part of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association in Washington DC. Panelists are:
Barry Smith (organizer)Werner CeustersChristopher G. ChuteCharlie MeadDon E. Detmer (moderator)
Further information is available at: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/HL7/panel.htm
Audiotape of the presentations is here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/HL7/AMIA_06_audio
Slides for Smith’s presentation are here; those [...]