I think I have read they want to move to a more W3C kind of model: if you want the standards you can use them, but if you want to contribute to their development you still have to be an HL7 member
2012/9/5 Dr Lavanian <lavanian at vsnl.net>: > Dear All, > I have been asking for more than 2 years for HL7 to become simplified and > free- to-use, so that it could proliferate globally. So this is good > news.....however I still await details. Like - (1) what is free, (2) how > long is it free, (3) what does 'free' really mean, (4) how soon will it > become free(time lines) and (5) what are the rules for commercial use and > localisation . > It is V2.x that especially needs to be made free as this is the version that > is the real work horse. > > There is also a related issue. How will this effect HL7 membership fees - > for members and franchisees. > > With warm regards, > > Dr D Lavanian > MBBS,MD > CEO and MD > HCIT Consultant > www.hcitconsultant.com > www.telemedconsultant.com > > Certified HL7 Specialist > Joint Secretary - Indian Association for Medical Informatics > Co-Chair, Memberships - HL7 India > Senior Consultant and Domain Expert - Healthcare Informatics and TeleHealth > > Former Vice President - Healthcare Products, Bilcare Ltd > Former Vice President - Software Division, AxSys Healthtech Ltd > Former Co-convener Sub committee on Standards , Government of India, Task > force for Telemedicine > Former Vice President - Telemedicine (Technical), Apollo Hospitals Group > > For useful updates in Healthcare IT, visit us at > www.facebook.com/HCitConsultant and 'friend' us. > > HL7, DICOM, ICD 10, HIPAA 5010 - strategy, training, implementation > The Right Solution, at the Right Time, at the Right Place and at the Right > Price > Call us Right Now! > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bert Verhees" <bert.verhees at rosa.nl> > To: "For openEHR technical discussions" > <openehr-technical at lists.openehr.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 3:14 AM > > Subject: Re: HL7 opens up > > > On 04-09-12 20:06, Diego Bosc? wrote: >> >> The big question is, how does it affect us? > > > HL7 is primary a way of messaging. In the Netherlands HL7 is very > important, as message format. All (I mean ALL) the underlying systems > which create the messages have legacy datamodel-storage. > There is no such thing as an HL7v3 storage system on the dutch market. > > Also an OpenEHR system can create HL7 messages, especially those > message-definitions which are created for the Netherlands, which are > created with focus on interoperability, to get all the legacy-systems > possible to join. > > So, I see no big change for the Dutch market. Anyway, costs were never > an issue. > > HL7 is also a storage concept, and I have been to some HL7-meetings, > where they discuss these kind of things. > > Without any hesitation, I saw people admiring HL7 systems which needed > 50 to 100 tables to store their thing, and which auto-created > SQL-statements from 250!!! lines to query the thing. > > That is not my way to go, especially if the purpose is interoperability > by creating the specially defined RMIM-messages, which are written with > focus on legacy to incorporate in the messaging-EPD. > > As I know the market in the Netherlands, I know it well, my expectation > is that legacy will dominate the progression next ten years, or even longer. > > We even have systems which are just five years ago ported to 32 bits > Windows (from 16 bits), and still use an old fashioned API-based > database. This is one of the richest healthcare-environments in the world. > > That is what is going on. > > So HL7 for free, nice, we can conform to the message-definitions for > free, and if system-builders succeed in free themselves from their > academic way of software-constructing and legacy and can use HL7 > constructs to store their data quick, they have an easy way for creating > the messages. > > (Hey HL7 folks, the secret for you is XPath, oops, now I gave away the > secret.) > > Fine. Let a thousand flowers bloom. > > When we are confident in our own software, there is nothing to fear from > HL7. > > That is my opinion. > > kind regards > Bert Verhees > > > >> >> 2012/9/4 Timothy Cook <timothywayne.cook at gmail.com>: >>> >>> Finally: >>> http://www.hl7.org/about/faqs/FreeIP.cfm >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ============================================ >>> Timothy Cook, MSc +55 21 94711995 >>> MLHIM http://www.mlhim.org >>> LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook >>> Skype ID == timothy.cook >>> Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openEHR-technical mailing list >>> openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org >>> >>> http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openEHR-technical mailing list >> openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org >> >> http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org
