David Guest wrote: > Dr Hugh Nelson wrote: > > >>CHIME - the Community Health Information Model Enterprise. >>Health Depts of NSW, Vic, WA, ACT put some millions into developing >>this with excellent consultations with health providers outside >>hospitals. >>I went to a number of meetings and workshops and was impressed that >>every data entity and relationship I could imagine as a GP was covered >>well. >>CHIME was meant to provide an overarching model, so any development >>that occurred for specific sections of health care would remain >>congruent with any other developments. >>I haven't heard of it for a long time. >>Are we about to reinvent some wheels? > > > Doubt it Hugh. Ian noted earlier that to a certain extent form must > follow function. As far as I am aware CHIME was merely form and as such > turned out to be a TWOFTAM.
CHIME was implemented (not sure how faithfully with respect to the original design and intentions) and has been deployed in a number of NSW community health centres, and it apparently works (again not sure how well - I've never actually seen the data model for it, nor the application itself, nor spoken to any users). There is a timetable for roll-out to other community health centres, I gather, but again I am unaware of details. Thus at least the initial T of David's acronymic epithet is unjustified, and the rest might be too. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
