From Healthcare IT News, “Health Level Seven announced yesterday that it is seeking public comments on what it is calling the potential industry standard model for personal health record functionality. The PHR-system functional model offers guidelines on how to facilitate information exchange between PHRs and electronic health record systems, HL7 said in an announcement.”
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Aurelia Bustos has started a very worthwhile project called the OpenReg Project. Bustos “has started working on the development of an open-source project aimed to deliver free web based tools for the collection of tumor data needed for hospital tumor registries in Europe.” Many open source projects are inspired by bureaucratic inefficiencies and frustrations. The [...]
Here is an interesting article by Vishnuvardhan working at Sun Microsystems in Bangalore, India. We often see semantic analysis done by strategy and process consultants but not usually from the developers working on implementing these solutions. From Vishnu’s blog,
Understanding HL7 V3 specification is a difficult task for the developers who worked on HL7 v2 messages. [...]
Out of The Netherlands, Albert D.G. de Roos has an interesting blog about the issues that can arise when government places its faith in a single standards organization, like HL7. He also argues that the HL7 community tends toward isolation and is practically immune from outside criticism since most practitioners are also active members. de [...]
Thomas Canter spells out his wish list for the BizTalk Server HL7 Accelerator 3.0 on his blog, Get on the Bus. I’m not very familiar with BizTalk, but I do agree that this is good advice for any software vendor undertaking an HL7 product. From Canter’s blog:
“The overall impact of the non-compliant behavior is that [...]