Is HL7 3 High Risk?
by Matthew ~ December 4th, 2007. Filed under: HL7 News.An interesting post by Dr. Barry Smith on his blog, HL7 Watch. Smith quotes a recent House of Commons meeting in the U.K. where at least one official remarks that HL7 3 is far from complete and considers its use “high risk”. Smith also raises concerns about how truly multilingual the standard is:
“The HL7 Reference Information Model or ‘RIM’ was, we will remember, introduced as the solution to the problems created by the appearance of multiple dialects in earlier versions of the HL7 standard. HL7 would prevent the appearance of dialect versions by enforcing conformity to the RIM. Now, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that the RIM itself exists in multiple dialects.”