All, I disagree its a commercial impossibility.
As an interim we could always adopt HL7 CDA R2 or the newer CCD as an data-interchange and sharing format and insist all providers could read and write records in that form reliably. For those who don't follow such stuff the CCD was balloted as an approved as a US standard a week or so ago and has the support of both HL7 and ASTM. The possible nirvana of deployment of openEHR compliant systems (even CEN/ISO 13606 Extract Compliant systems) is probably a way off yet and requires some infrastructure we don't yet have. Tim C can explain if needed. This, of course, assumes there is leadership in the e-health space - as we see with the CCHIT (just Google it) in the US - NEHTA - being focussed on the concerns of its board members ie CEOs of the Hospital delivery systems etc - has no real interest here I know of - but I am sure someone can tell me I have that wrong. Having a basic core shareable record would be a boon in all sorts of contexts until we can sort out the final standards - not perfect but better than the Babel we have now I reckon. There is a usable standard - what's the betting the commercial competitors would ever agree to implement unless they were told to? Cheers David. ---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:31:23 +1100, Simon James wrote: >> It's a commercial impossibility, however, that any company would refuse to >> make a practices data available in some form of unencrypted format (raw tables, >> XML etc) if requested. Potential customers don't like hearing these sorts of >> things. >> > > It's a commercial impossibility, however I doubt that any company would > refuse to make a practices data available in some form of unencrypted format (raw > tables, XML etc) if requested. Potential customers don't like hearing these > sorts of things. > > __________ NOD32 2069 (20070218) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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