Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“It took a couple of days for The Australian and the usual suspects to catch up with the news of the problems with the specifications for the PCEHR which I reported on Sunday and again yesterday, which may explain the enthusiasm with which they have greeted confirmation of the story in a statement from NEHTA.
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Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Last year I started a series of “Do’s and Dont’s” in hospital tech by focusing on wireless technologies.
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Wes Rishel, Gartner
“HL7 attended the meeting in London where a consensus was developed that represents a draft of the statement that CIMI issued. Upon seeing the final draft HL7 specifically requested that its name be placed on the list of signatories to the document.
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Acker B et al, Journal of AHIMA
Problem lists facilitate continuity of patient care by providing a comprehensive and accessible list of patient problems in one place. Problem lists used within health records are a list of illnesses, injuries, and other factors that affect the health of an individual patient, usually identifying the time of occurrence or identification and resolution.1 They are an important communication vehicle used throughout the entire healthcare continuum.
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HL7
“Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, today is pleased to announce that the HL7 Board unanimously agreed to pledge to engage and empower individuals to be partners in their health through information technology.
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Grahame Grieve, Health Intersections
“Well, yesterday’s post about HL7 v3 failing certainly struck a nerve, particularly in private comments. One person picked up on the fact that it wasn’t the entire story. HL7 does have a Fresh Look Task Force.
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Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Graham Grieve, a major participant in HL7 standards writes HL7 needs a fresh look because V3 has failed.
I agree with much of what he says, in particular his distinction between clinical interop and semantic interop.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released an advance on a proposed rule about the use of existing metadata standards to support electronic health information exchange and to get feedback on the experience from various organizations that may have applied them.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Using a Beacon grant provided by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, the Mayo Clinic is building what may be the next generation of health information exchanges (HIE) with a group of healthcare providers in southeast Minnesota. In this real-world demonstration, Mayo will apply the computer tools it is developing through a federal SHARP grant to create new methods of mining electronic health record (EHR) data.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Health Level Seven (HL7) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced Thursday that they have expanded collaborative efforts.
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Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“El título de este post es un poco contradictorio con el trabajo que hago a diario. Mi trabajo consiste en el modelado e integración de distintos sistemas de información, y detectar oportunidades de aplicación de estándares internacionales.
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Rob Brull, HL7 Standards
“There is little doubt that the first time you see the HL7 v3 RIM, or Reference Information Model, it will make you wonder how someone thought that this could make things easier. One of the key thoughts in moving from HL7 v2 to HL7 v3 is that the new v3 would be a model-driven methodology.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“Some of these decisions are made locally by the provider, based on their organizations policies and workflows. Others are negotiated with someone else. Some are made by the supplier. You cannot order something from a supplier that they don’t provide.
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Thomas Beale, Woland's Cat
“Of the above, I think only point 2 might need an addition to openEHR. I think a very simple null-flavour vocabulary is preferable to the HL7 one, because the latter includes concepts that are very general with others that are very specific, and also does not achieve mutual exclusion.
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Thomas Beale, Woland's Cat
“An initial comment I will make is that there is a notion that openEHR is ‘about defining systems’ whereas HL7 ‘is about interoperability’. This is incorrect. openEHR is primarily about solving the information interoperability problem in health, and it addresses all information, regardless of whether it is inside a system or in a message.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“Detailed clinical models are certainly a buzz term in the health IT community in recent years, commonly abbreviated to DCMs. Many people are talking about them but unfortunately, often they are referring to different things. The level of confusion is at least as large as the hype.
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Sonal Patel, HL7 Standards
“The goal of healthcare IT is to ensure all systems and applications within a healthcare system work smoothly together for organized, seamless data flow. The first step to achieving such a goal is to understand your current workflow.
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Yahoo News
“Health Level Seven International (HL7®) today announced the release of the Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer Implementation Guide. The HL7 CCD guide was created for the U.S. payer stakeholder community and is intended to be used with the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 Patient Information (275) Implementation Guide, to ensure consistency in the implementation of U.S. realm PHR data transfer functions between health plans.
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Thomas Beale, Woland's Cat
“Grahame Grieve’s recent blog entry on the HL7 Fresh Look Task Force seems a good excuse for me to have another big picture look at e-health. The fact that HL7 is doing this indicates two things at least: that it thinks something is wrong in the HL7 organisation, and that it thinks something is not going right in e-health in general. That’s good to see. HL7 has been the single most influential standards body in e-health for at least 15 years. It has spent massive effort in the last decade on an effort called HL7v3, or ‘version 3′.
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Tim Gee, Medical Connectivity
“Medical device manufacturers in markets that have managed to resist creating connectivity solutions are facing increased pressure from providers adopting EMRs. I mean, what’s the use of automating the EMR if users have to write down numbers read from medical device displays and then manually type them into the EMR? That’s certainly not “automation.” This feature is already a required and necessary feature in some device markets, and rapidly becoming a necessity in many other device markets.
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