> > As an ISO standard, I believe that it should be an intersection of > all the > > input specifications, rather than a union > > extension has it's own difficulties, as does union. We were aware of > the > berlin decision, but ISO 21090 resulted from a deliberate decision > to do something different. Was that a right decision? Unfortunately, > time won't tell, since the alternatives are purely hypothetical. >
[HKF: ] Obviously this deliberate decision was made without the parties that were in Berlin who had come to that conclusion for a very good reason, they had already tried that approach without success. So we are back to the same position we were in 5 years ago, with another data types standard that is unable to be used out of the box ubiquitously in healthcare information systems.
