Christian, I'd be happy to contribute something on HL7 and would also help to get speakers for the other standards. I do think we need a short session on terminology, as this has the main focus now. As you may be aware, SNOMED is in the process of being transformed into a more open international Standards Development Organisation (SDO) with a new HQ in Denmark. Klaus
_____ From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Heller Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 01:05 To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics Hi Klaus, > Re question 3, I would like to suggest we look at the topic "How can FOSS > applications share data with other existing healthcare applications?". This > aim of the topic is that there already are well-established standards (HL7, > LOINC, SNOMED, etc.) in use in healthcare systems and that to be able to > integrate into existing healthcare institutions any new (FOSS) system must > be able to use these standards. We started on this topic at the London OSHCA > meeting, but much more work needs to be done. yes, you are correct. As I wrote yesterday in my other email on "Getting OSHCA organised", it should not: 1 Define technical architectures 2 Mandate use of specific standards .. nor try to define its own That is at least what we in the committee agreed upon. Opinions welcome. In other words, OSHCA should focus on inter-operability using *existing* standards, instead of defining its own, as you write. However, it may give recommendations on which standards to prefer. Although OSHCA would be neutral assessing standards, open standards would clearly be preferred. My thoughts are that it'd be nice to have one-hour presentations of standards like HXP, HDTF (CORBAmed), OpenEHR, HL7, xDT etc. on one day. Ideally, the presentations would give few theory and demonstrate on practical examples (code snippets, live demo or whatever), how they work, just like at a developer's conference. Although I know basic principles behind most of these standards, the conference would already be worth visiting for me, because I'd get essential knowledge in a compact form. And this is presumably also what our Asian (developer) colleagues expect from the conference: to get a brief overview of important technologies. I suggest to exclude terminology standards this time, or to plan just one presentation giving an overview of some of them. Instead, we should focus on pure data exchange. But these are just my ideas and wishes. Others in this list may vote me down and change the conference agenda. Tell us your wishes and we will try to realise them. Christian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
