openEHR-technical Digest, Vol 27, Issue 1

2008-10-08 Thread Sam Heard
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Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Grahame Grieve
hi Tom I wasn't going to enter this thread, but: > Decision-makers need to study evidence, not words. Evidence is just more words. And the key issue is how to discern them. Standards are necessarily competing - that allows market forces to work. Grahame

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Grahame Grieve
> Again it's not my document and not my decission and if you had taken > the time to read my mail properly you could have known that. > Luckely the Istanbul meeting is in 2 weeks so there is plenty of time > to come up with an alternative document in which al of your brilliant > analyses are

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Eric Browne
Thomas, Strange you should malign the Russians so. In 1994 I was on a joint British-Russian expedition to investigate the mid-Atlantic ocean ridge, over 4km deep. The only submersibles to get to those depths as a pair, and photograph the "black smokers" and attendant sea creatures were Russia

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Eric Browne
Stef, I don't question your intentions, but I definitely question the value of such a document in helping the discussions at CEN and ISO level. I can only see it confusing the already muddied waters. You simply cannot advance the cause of harmonisation of standards, or choosing between sta

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread David Ingram
Grahame Grieve wrote: > >> Decision-makers need to study evidence, not words. > > Evidence is just more words. And the key > issue is how to discern them. > > Standards are necessarily competing - that allows > market forces to work. > I expect Graham was grinning and pulling Tom's leg a bit

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas Beale
Grahame Grieve wrote: > hi Tom > > I wasn't going to enter this thread, but: > > >> Decision-makers need to study evidence, not words. >> > > Evidence is just more words. And the key > issue is how to discern them. > > * I don't agree Grahame, evidence is something you have to go looking

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Stef Verlinden
Eric, To be clear, it is not my document. It is the document created by the members of the Dutch mirror group on, to which I've contributed. Like I stated it's a consensus document which is great but also created many boundaries to the extend we could extend the discussion. So don't shoot

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Stef Verlinden
ey heard about was VHS they bought into that system and took over the market. Any simllarities here? Cheers, Stef -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20081008/e37f041b/attachment.html>

Insight into the choices to be made in standards for the electronic exchange of health record information

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas Beale
Stef Verlinden wrote: > Thomas. > Op 7-okt-2008, om 17:10 heeft Thomas Beale het volgende geschreven: > >> Governments need to understand these realities, or they will continue >> to find it difficult to see how to apply any of the competing >> standards available today. I have to say that I don'