Good points...just one corrections... On 05/11/2010 01:16, Koray Atalag wrote: > > Hi All, just back from the New Zealand's national health informatics > conference -- HINZ. A big thing for a small country -- I must say it > was as impressive as HIC and Medinfo! Related with the topic I had a > chance to present our work -- a full-fledged implementation of our > openEHR based endoscopy application and it drew significant attention. > However compared to the existence of HL7 this was miniscule. I am not > going to talk why this is the case but focus on some ideas which might > help us to get openEHR better adoption. I have expressed these ideas > personally with some of you but here is the full list: > > -openEHR is not embracing: meaning, apart from a handful of core > people fulltime employed to work on this, there is no model of > 'organic engagement' -- it is not tangible by ordinary people. And > also a few others, like me, who are lucky enough to get paid to do > work on openEHR from academia/research side or like Rong from a super > dedicated vendor like Cambio. So how can one folk from company X can > be an 'openEHRer' ? and why that should be compensated? Commercial > organisations usually are reluctant to fund such activities if an > employee is not taking some responsibility and that creates some > visibility/traction. >
there are zero paid openEHR people, full-time or part-time. The people who currently put some effort into openEHR, such as myself, are working on exactly the same basis as anyone else in the community. We are just crazy enough to spend more time on it;-) - thomas * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101105/df7a8586/attachment.html>
