Osborne, Steve wrote: > Geoff > I'm finding it difficult to understand how this works. My understanding > has always been the ack is generated when the result is imported to the > clinical application. Please correct me if I'm mistaken in the > following.
... It seems to me that many useful points have been raised in this thread, and that there is a fairly urgent need to define standards, even just widely agreed de facto standards in the interim, for the syntax and semantics of application-level ACKs and NACKs. As they stand, the HL7 2.x specs and AS4700.2 and 4700.6 and the handbooks associated with them provide a minimal framework for ACKs, but lack sufficient detail to be actually useful in this respect. But they don't get in the way, which is good. Now, if NEHTA could just sponsor a two-day roundtable for key stakeholders, then I dare say a draft standard for application-level ACKs could be assembled, put out for comment and we'd have useful common ground within a few months. Pats on the back for NEHTA would result Then that de facto standard could be put on Standards Australia's agenda so that it can wave its wand over it, if it so chooses. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
