Thomas Beale wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: >> I know that the openEHR/Ocean Informatics/UCL people, and perhaps some >> other research groups, believe fervently in the adequacy and >> practicality of the openEHR approach, but modern health care has just >> about dispensed with fervent belief. Formal studies in peer-reviewed >> journals are needed - and yes, those takes time - perhaps a large part >> of a decade. But the openEHR project has been going form a decade or so >> now, and the GEHR project for nearly a decade prior to that. What's a >> few more years? >> > well, actually, openEHR was only created in 1999, so that's 8 years.
OK, I stand corrected. > But your really shouldn't accuse people of using 'fervant belief' when > they are using scientific methods. All of the progress made so far is > based on evidence and testing. Where can I read about that evidence and the results of that testing, Thomas? That was my point. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong places? I can find some papers, and lots of technical reports published by Ocean Informatics and openEHR and a few others describing the underlying ideas and implementation details of openEHR, but no documents which describe how well it actually works in practice - any aspect of "how well it works", from speed and capacity with large data volumes and many users, to the adequacy of concept representation when using currently published archetype definitions in the field, to the ability to seemlessly exchange openEHR data between heterogenous openEHR clinical information systems without information loss or degradation or misinterpretation. I'd be very grateful if you could point out these papers and reports. But only if they are publicly available. No-one is interested in unpublished, unavailable reports. Yet-to-be published manuscripts, yes. Research degree dissertations, if available in electronic form, yes. Of course, I should do a fresh PubMed and Google Scholar search on openEHR. I last did one about 10 or 11 months ago and could not find any evaluations of how well openEHR works in practice, only descriptions of it. Tim C _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
