Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale wrote: > > Bill Walton wrote: > /snip/ > > > >1) Is it your intention that openEHR eventually become a viable alternative > >to commercial offerings, or is openEHR intended as an academic / research > >tool? > > > well, I can say two things: > a) the core people currently involved in developing the specifications > intend to try to change clinical computing - everywhere. > b) as more people become more active in openEHR, they will bring their > interests to the table. Most of the ones I know of are interested in > changing clinical outcomes in the real world. > c) academia and research contexts are of course important, and are where > a lot of innovation comes from. So we should not discount these. But the > real aim is to change things (rather than just talking about it, to > paraphrase Marx;-)
That's three things ;-) Seriously though, it sounds like we're on the same page. Getting the system into day-to-day use in clinical settings is the objective. Yes? > > >2) Does the openEHR Foundation exist yet or is it still under formation? > > > It does exist as a legal non-profit organisation, but as an > international foundation, incorporated in the UK. The "openEHR" name and > other special marks (e.g. "conforms to openEHR vX.X" etc) are also > protected, ensuring that they are used for truly conformant systems and > applications. Excellent. > >3) I may simply not have discovered it yet, but I expected to find a place > >on your site where developers were engaged in conversation about the > >components of the system they were developing. Could you share a little > >about your operating model, particularly with respect to new developers > >interested in contributing? > > > A number of developments are coming online. There is work being done in > C#, Java, Eiffel and XML-schema that I know of. Some of this will become > visible on the website in the next month or two. I assume this work is being done by some of the founding members and that they're communicating back-channel. Yes? > It is still early days, so how implementation work and collaboration pans > out is not entirely forseeable. Understandable. > However, it is planned to get more people involved to give > of their expertise on collaborative software development, developing > test cases, conformance criteria and so on. I managed a test automation group from '95-'00. As a consultant / contractor, I'm typically engaged as a Project Manager with a technical focus in requirements definition and testing. I'll look forward to the opportunity to contribute once you've got the mechanisms defined. > The main effort to this > point has been to get a set of specificatinos good enough to start work > on. It is believed that the current ones are, and a baseline will appear > soon. Saw your earlier note on timeframes and was encouraged. > Mechanisms for submitting change requests etc will also appear > soon, but of course, none of this work is instant! Let me know if I can be of assistance. Process definition is a substantial component of what I do. Best regards, Bill > > - thomas beale > > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
