After a hot discussion about the subject of embracing (or not) the HL-7 definition (I would not call it a protocol... yet), an idea has grown among certain Care2x developers that an independent Health Exchange Protocol was the better way to go.
When that idea potential was realized Care2x's project leader, Elpidio Latorilla, just put 2+2 together and did a quick fix of the old RPC-XML protocol with the new health exchange needs and quickly tried make it is own. The HXP protocol was born.
If you take a look at the "About the authors" page at the HXP site http://hxp.sourceforge.net/ , you will perhaps get the idea that all that was born from the Elpidio's own mind. I will not even raise the issue of intellectual honesty.
The HXP protocol, being based in RPC-XML had nothing innovative (see the RPC-XML site at http://www.xmlrpc.com/).
But, in a sense, the XML part of it would certainly grant HXP a nice future.
So, guess what? It seems that Siemens just did the same as Elpidio.
But this time it was done the right way. The definition is related to XML and looks only related to auditing procedures in healthcare... but auditing encompasses all what you can do in a health information system.
The paper has just been released as a Internet Engineering Task Force (www.ietf.org) request-for-comment (RFC) number 3881:
RFC: 3881 Author: G. Marshall / Siemens Category: Informational Date: September 2004 Link: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3881.txt
Although being released as an auditing tool facilitator, the bases for a much larger project are all there.
Is it a goodbye HXP, hello RFC3881?
"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked... the student of war who is unversed in the art of war of varying his plans, even though he be acquainted with the Five Advantages, will fail to make the best use of his men."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War, http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar8.htm
Best regards,
J. Antas
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