On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:10, Andrew Ho wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Tim Cook wrote: > ... > > Sounds like a promotion for openEHR http://www.openehr.org model. > > Care to explain?
Sure. I didn't intend to be cryptic. You comments: > Medical practice is heterogenious and rapidly changing. Until we > recognize customizability/extensibility as a critical feature, we will > continue to lament the need to buy a different jean for each clinical > setting and re-purchase a pair of new jean every few years. sounds to me like the background reasons for openEHR. See:http://www.openehr.org/getting_started/t_openehr_primer.htm A relevant excerpt: "Health Information Systems today suffer from a number of key problems: * lack of interoperability and vendor lock-in; * cost and difficulty of maintenance, given the rate of change and sheer size of the information in the health domain; * lack of support for security, privacy and consent. These shortcomings are widely recognised, but doing something about them is not simple, because of the sheer volume of health data being produced, and the number and complexity of systems. There is no silver bullet fix, of course. However, the openEHR Foundation proposes solutions based on a reconceptualisation of the problem space not in narrow IT implementation terms, but in terms of an integrated framework of technical modelling, domain modelling, and software engineering. The following sections describe openEHR thinking in more detail." Cheers, -- Tim Cook Key ID 9ACDB673 @ http://www.keyserver.net/en/
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