Is the HL7 RIM an ISO standard? Really?
by Matthew ~ December 31st, 1969. Filed under: News.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 large amounts of money in systems based on such standards which have then failed.
This raises all the more urgently the question: are there clear examples of V3 implementations which actually work, to set alongside the conspicuous examples of failures?
It raises also the question: on what basis did the ISO make its decision to anoint the V3 as an ISO standard, given that the V3 documentation is, as representatives of the HL7 organization have admitted, of such low quality as to be practically unintelligible?
September 18, 2006—Health Level Seven (HL7), one of the world’s most prolific healthcare [...]
Original post by Barry Smith