Crowdsourcing = Errata submission perhaps here http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=0636920020110
Of the reviews I read there was reference to 'rushed' missing chapters, and poor proof reading. Tom Seabury From: openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@openehr.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Beale Sent: 12 February 2012 13:01 To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: Meaningful Use and Beyond - O'Reilly press - errata It would be interesting to see what US-based list members think of what Michael has quoted below. Is openEHR really seen as 'controversial' in the US? (Controversy can be good - at least it means debate). The quote below about David Uhlman being CTO of openEHR in 2001 is certainly incorrect - I imagine it is supposed to read 'OpenEMR', going by what I see here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearHealth> in Wikipedia (in any case, openEHR has never had a 'CTO' position). That's a surprisingly bad fault in O'Reilly editing; worse, the author page for David Uhlman<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4766> on the O'Reilly website repeats the same error. This review<http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020110.do#PowerReview> on the same website seems to confirm a complete lack of review or editing of the original manuscript. O'Reilly obviously is missing basic mechanisms for quality control. But the more interesting question is: are the opinions in this book about openEHR representative of a US view? - thomas On 12/02/2012 11:22, Michael Osborne wrote: I read the recently released O'Reilly book "Meaningful Use and Beyond" on Safari books today and found the following errors and some quite blatantly false statements about OpenEHR. Firstly is the claim by one of the authors, David Uhlman, that he was CTO of openEHR in 2001 - a claim which Thomas Beale denies. David Uhlman is CEO of ClearHealth, Inc., which created and supports ClearHealth, the first and only open source, meaningful use-certified, comprehensive, ambulatory EHR.... David entered health-care in 2001 as CTO for the OpenEHR project. One of the first companies to try commercializing open source healthcare systems , OpenEHR met face first with the difficult realities of bringing proven mainstream technologies into the complicated and some- times nonsensical world of healthcare. Secondly, a nonsensical statement about openEHR in the book... p.161 OpenGALEN and OpenEHR are both attempts to promote open source ontology con- cepts. Both of the projects have been maturing but some view these as unnecessary additions or alternatives to SNOMED+UMLS. However, they are available under open source licensing terms might make them a better alternative to SNOMED for certain jurisdictions. And this, p163... OpenEHR is a controversial approach to applying knowledge engineering principles to the entire EHR, including things like the user interfaces. You might think of Open- EHR as an ontology for EHR software design. Many health informaticists disagree on the usefulness of OpenEHR. Some believe that HL7 RIM, given its comprehensive nature, is the highest level to which formal clinical knowledge managing needs to go. I'm beginning to lose all respect for O'Reilly press. It's been all downhill since the camel book. Cheers Michael Osborne -- Michael Osborne _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openEHR-technical at openehr.org> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical ******************************************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and GSi recipients NHSmail provides an email address for your career in the NHS and can be accessed anywhere For more information and to find out how you can switch, visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail ******************************************************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120213/b719d214/attachment.html>
