Wes Rishel

For the current state of RIM-based HL7 standards XML schema is a necessary ingredient.

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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries     Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, HIE, HL7, JSON, XML Schema

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Although some ascribe sainted status to XML schema, it doesn’t provide enough value to compensate for the practical difficulties it creates, not the least of which is blocking an evolution towards JSON.

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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries     Tags: Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HL7, JSON, XML, XML Schema

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I strongly urge HL7 NOT to take a preemptive, doctrinaire “not invented here” position with respect to CIMI until the actual value of CIMI work product can be evaluated.

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Category: Uncategorized     Tags: CIMI, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HL7, simple interop

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The Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI) is a small group of volunteers that are working to consolidate the detailed clinical models of various groups in a way that could be adapted to meet the needs of health IT standards groups.

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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries     Tags: clinical decision support, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability

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On Wednesday the California Healthcare Foundation published Request for Proposals: Using Electronic Data Standards to Communicate Laboratory Orders. CHCF actually lives up to an important but seldom-followed precept of standards: producing a spec is only the start of getting a working standard. Someone has to nurse it through initial implementations, reflect on the lessons learned [...]

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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized     Tags: EHR, ELINCS, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, HL7

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