The last time I checked, the FDA web site defines a Class I medical device as presenting, “minimal potential for harm to the user and often simpler in design.” The examples used are, “elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments.” However, FDA is now proposing that the software that goes into Class III devices [...]
Looks like Google may be diving into the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) space with the launch of their new Health Advisory Council. From the Medical Connectivity Consulting blog, “vendors continue to struggle with device connectivity – with vendors creating “open” interfaces that only work with their own medical device or EMR (think Welch Allyn or [...]
As the useful Resources page of HL7 Australia makes clear:
At first site the RIM is quite simple. The RIM backbone has just five core classes and a number of permitted relationships between them.In HL7 V3, every happening is an Act, which is analogous to a verb in English. Each Act may have any number of [...]
More from Stockholm County Council, and its ambitious healthcare IT system, the GVD, sometimes advanced as a success story of HL7 V3:
We chose Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base because it complies with the worldwide HL7 standard for clinical data, and because it comes from a major international company, committed to supporting, developing, and refining the product [...]
HL7 RIM, as we have pointed out on too many occasions, confuses observations with the entities observed. To illustrate this confusion once again, we provide the following scenario, from Werner Ceusters (WC), with reactions from Dan Russler (DR), as they appeared on the HL7 vocab list. We added some small clarifications and corrected some spelling [...]