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 Tagged as 'HIE'
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
HL7′s Position on CIMI
by Wes Rishel | December 15, 2011 | 7 Comments
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.
Category: Uncategorized Tags: CIMI, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HL7, simple interop
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
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
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
Surescripts Announcement Confirms Simple Interop Incremental Approach
by Wes Rishel | October 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Our feeling was that the simple Interop would attract companies that would start up without grants and creatively find value propositions to repay their investment. This notion of enabling free enterprise seems to have paid off.
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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct, simple interop
retweet: WOO HOO! #NHINDirect wins @InformationWeek 500 Gov Innovators Award
by Wes Rishel | September 24, 2010 | Comments Off
All award programs are hooey — except when something you care about wins the award. I am happy to be associated with NHIN direct and my hat’s off to four key people who are showing us how to use the Internet to advance standards development.
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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct
Plug for Motorcycle Guy’s Map of CDA/XDS
by Wes Rishel | July 5, 2010 | Comments Off
If you follow health IT standards and haven’t seen it, I recommend a look Keith Boone’s Where in the World is CDA and XDS. This is a sexy presentation and a great use of simple and effective collaboration. More important, it is a massive job to get this data and keep it up to date. [...]
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Category: Healthcare Providers Vertical Industries Tags: Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, IHE, Meaningful Use, Stimulus
NHIN Direct: Response to Comment on Vendor Positions
by Wes Rishel | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today Anand Shroff replied to my prior post with some very provoking questions. I have added emphasis in quoting his reply. Wes – are you detecting a split between EMR vendors and HIE vendors? From where I sit, the HIE vendors should be fairly neutral about what gets picked, as long as there is a single [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Reform, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN, NHIN Direct, Stimulus
