Wes Rishel

In A Singular Opportunity for Health Interoperability I summarized a metaphor based on the Web standards HTTP and HTML which was “get HL7 and other SDOs out of the HTTP business.”
Metaphors gain their power from poetic ambiguity. One of the great things about a metaphor is that it can rally so many folks to believe [...]

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Healthcare SDOs should “get out of the HTTP business, but we still need transport standards.

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For a while, we will all be trying to estimate how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) will impact our bailiwicks. On list servers some writers read the tea leaves to see a much broader and more systematic look at healthcare informatics and interoperability than has been pursued by the ONCHIT. They argue [...]

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