“Part II of the Wolandscat series on “The Crisis in E-Health Standards” continues the argument of Part I, discussed already here, to the effect that software engineers and not (for example) quasi-governmental committees involving members with ‘limited engineering skills’ and utilizing a methodology based on democratic votes, should be the ones engaged in building e-Health standards.
But there is a worry which arises in connection with this general strategy, which is that software engineers — even when given all the resources they need, and even when walled off from committee interference and popularity contests — often seem to produce work that is affected by the very same confusions about which Wolandscat himself is complaining.”
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Barry Smith, HL7 Watch, 2 October 2009
