Hello All, It has been quite interesting following this string of discussion.
A lot of passion is coming out which indicates a mixture of frustration and hope. But let me say OpenEHR is a wonderful idea.Yes the initial intent was future proofing but we can't wish away interoperability as a major deliverable! As far as standards go, it is not always the best that gets wide adoption! The key to ubiquity is reaching critical mass quickly and that depends on utility: utility in the wild, not in the research lab. There must be some well-scoped demonstrable platform that everybody can work toward delivering-that will be supported by the community. Not just siloed implementations. This platform will stand the best chance if it is open-sourced.Then it can be a trigger for adoption. I don't think clinicians have time to wonder what standards are running their EHRs.They just want them to work. As hard as HL7 seems, it has utility! Like the adage goes if you are winking in the dark, only you know it. To overtake other standards, the openEHR community must learn from the Apache Foundation or OSGi for instance. The route to viral adoption is open-sourcing of an implementation. Cambio most likely may lead in this since theirs is based on Java. May Ocean should! The other thing is the Service Model which can be used not only for testing but for serving instances of implementations. I hope my ramble made some sense. Dr Olusegun Odujebe Lagos, Nigeria Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -----Original Message----- From: pablo pazos <[email protected]> Sender: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:21:07 To: openehr clinical<openehr-clinical at openehr.org>; openehr technical<openehr-technical at openehr.org>; openehr implementers2<openehr-implementers at openehr.org> Reply-To: For openEHR clinical discussions <openehr-clinical at openehr.org> Subject: RE: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
