Dan, Thanks for pointing this out. Would like to clarify that these notes are taken by a scribe in a telcon and sometimes the context of the statement is not captured accurately.
To correct the mis-statement: The HL7 Observation standards for EMR's have been in use since the 1990's in both HL7 2.x standards and the new HL7 RIM-based standards found in CDA documents and other RIM-based standards. These RIM-based standards are now chosen by national government bodies including US (ONC contracts), Canada (Infoway), Australia (NEHTA), and the UK (NHS). Therefore, there are widely used standards for observations in EMR design. [VK] The specific context in which this comment was made was that of clinical decision support and clinical research protocols. For the most part HL7 standards used for interoperability and storage. Specifically Detailed Clinical Models have been developed by Stan Huff et. al. for clinical decision support and documentation, use cases for which HL7 2.x standards are typically not used (correct me if I am wrong). At the same time, DCMs are HL7 compliantl and I believe are going through the standards process within HL7. So in some sense they might be "future HL7 standards". Hope the work of the Clinical Observation Interoperability group makes sure that an effort is made to harmonize clinical trial observation standards with both of these older, widely-used HL7 standards for patient care....Dan [VK] Absolutely, our goal is to re-use and incorporate widely used standards such as HL7/DCM and SDTM using Semantic Web specifications. Will be great if some folks from the Clinical side of Oracle could participate in this activity. Cheers, ---Vipul The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information.