For the current state of RIM-based HL7 standards XML schema is a necessary ingredient.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, HIE, HL7, JSON, XML Schema
Entries Categorized as 'Interoperability'
OK, XML Schema Does Earn its Keep in HL7
by Wes Rishel | December 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Does XML Schema Earn its Keep?
by Wes Rishel | December 28, 2011 | 6 Comments
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.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HL7, JSON, XML, XML Schema
At Last, Data Molecules! CIMI
by Wes Rishel | December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
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.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries Tags: clinical decision support, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability
ELINCS: Doing Lab Orders Standards Right
by Wes Rishel | December 8, 2011 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Tags: EHR, ELINCS, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, HL7
Gartner Symposium: 10,000 of My Closest Friends
by Wes Rishel | September 26, 2011 | Comments Off
Recently I have been peer-reviewing my colleagues’ presentations for Gartner Symposium 2011. Those of you who have attended know that it mostly dedicated to IT in general, attended by roughly 10,000 CIOs and their direct reports across all industries and government. Sunday October 16 in Orlando we are doing a track specifically for healthcare providers [...]
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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: analytics, business intelligence, EHR, Health Information Exchange, health plans, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers
Can Consumer Friendly Terms Ever be Standardized?
by Wes Rishel | September 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
Creating a consumer-friendly taxonomy of the types of services provided by healthcare practices is, at best, expensive and more likely an oxymoronic challenge. Entry Level Provider Directories should solicit plain-English descriptions directly from the practices.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Direct Project, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Providers, NHIN Direct
Lessons From the Putative Failure of HL7 V3
by Wes Rishel | August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
Recent blogs to the contrary, HL7 V3 has been a limited success, particularly with CDA documents. In taking up a Fresh Look, HL7 must consider the differences between CDA and V3 messaging and learn some important lessons.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: EHR, Health 2.0, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HL7 Fresh Look, simple interop
ONC Moves on Sending Questions to the Data
by Wes Rishel | July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
ONC Moves on Sending Questions to the Data
Category: Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Direct Project, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Meaningful Use, PCAST Report, Query Health
Send the Questions to the Data
by Wes Rishel | July 7, 2011 | 10 Comments
We all know why distributed query “can’t work.” OTOH, things are only impossible until they’re not. It’s time to decide if we are approaching a cusp of possibility. We have new resources (more EHRS, a fundamental secure communications infrastructure and standard coding systems in support of meaningful use requirements). It is time to assemble a group of users and vendors willing to look at this issue intensely but pragmatically.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Direct Project, distributed query, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, open source, PCAST Report, public health
Simple Provider Directories for Simple Interop
by Wes Rishel | May 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Ideas about provider directories to support The Direct Project are getting quite complex. Here is an approach that matches Direct itself for simplicity and the potential for rapid completion.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Direct Project, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct, NwHIN
