Is HL7 v3 Teachable After All?
by Matthew ~ December 31st, 1969. Filed under: News.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 the HL7 Development Framework or the RIM itself. Our team are of the opinion that HL7 v3 can be learned with a reasonable amount time and effort invested. We consider a training program of one week, such as one we received from an external consultancy company, sufficient for the first contact with the whole topic. Focusing on the messages, the HL7 v3 technology is not more complex than any other XML based document format defined per XML-Schema. Errors in the documentation are, of course, annoying. But as far as we can tell, they are not [...]
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