Hello Andrew, Thursday, May 11, 2006, 1:34:19 PM, you wrote:
AP> You are the only AHML compliant messenger in Australian health. AP> Doesn't that scream 'problem' to you. As you said, HL7v2 has been AP> around for 20 years.. I would have thought a couple of these AP> other larger HL7 organisations would have found that time to swing AP> some programming time on achieving AHML compliance - or is it AP> not in their interest for messages to be exchanged in a compliant AP> format? The corporate players need a "Business case" - they could do it but see no reason. Get 50 GPs to say become compliant or we will send all our work to the opposition would create a business case. Of course the ACCC would then fine the GP's for collusion ;-) One GP vendor said on this list that it would make it 2 easy to move to another package (ie a HL7 export of data) There are are labs in Queensland that can supply AHML compliant HL7 V2.3.1, just not the big players. >> They may have laughed a lot longer and louder if you asked them for >> Data in the 'Andrew Patterson XML Format' you had just devised. AP> Don't get me wrong - I have no interest in defining any of my own AP> formats.. The time it has taken to define the HL7 V2 standard and get to the "3 week mark" is evidence against a new standards usefulness and reason to help out getting HL7V2 standards refined to get interoperability down to the 3 minute mark. Throwing it away will cause the IT equivalent of the dark ages >> That a lot better than starting from scratch every time! AP> No doubt - am not suggesting in the slightest that entities AP> rolling their own standard is an option. I just have a AP> conceptual problem - I'm interested in decentralised messaging AP> between GP's, path labs, radiology labs, pharmacists and AP> patients. I'm worried that HL7 as an organisation AP> doesn't see any problem with AP> requiring each and every vendor for every one of those AP> participants to agree in a separate 2-way negotiation about AP> what 'standard' flavour they want to use.. (seems like a AP> recipe for centralised 'toll' gatekeepers who will 'fix' AP> your messages up for you - which funnily enough seems AP> to be what we currently have).. Making AHML compliance for all mandatory to play in Health IT would make a huge difference, ??NEHTA's role AP> Andrew -- Best regards, Andrew mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew McIntyre Buderim Gastroenterology Centre www.buderimgastro.com.au PH: 07 54455055 FAX: 54455047 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
