Geoff, I know what and where AHML is and have used it many times both when I was at HCN and since I've been working on BP. What I was asking was - if vendors are to be expected to obtain AHML compliance, where is the documentation of an AHML compliant REF message that we can use to develop our messages prior to beginning the test process.
My past experience leads me to believe that just complying with AS4700.x standards does not guarantee automatic AHML acceptance, as the AS4700 standards are high level and lack detail in many areas. Best Practice currently produces and imports REF messages, but I am reluctant to pay for AHML compliance until I have some formal documentation that outlines the message structure. Without this, it is trial and error - I build a message and see if passes the test. If it doesn't, I change it and hope that it will pass next time. This is a waste of my time. I don't think that this is good enough for a proposed national accreditation mechanism for clinical messaging and believe that if AHML are serious, they should publish a formal specification for a REF message that vendors can refer to when developing messaging components. Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Sayer Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2007 6:30 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] If it sounds too good to be true itprobablyis -REFvsORU Hi Frank There is a message testing centre at: http://www.ahml.com.au/ This allows developers to test messages online through their "test engine". >From the web site: "Message testing is free and generated reports show three levels of possible non-conformance, errors, warnings and alerts and thus provides detail as to the exact nature of the non-conformance." Geoff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Pyefinch Sent: Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:31 p.m. To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] If it sounds too good to be true it probablyis -REFvsORU Geoff, Do AHML have any published documentation that software vendors can work to prior to seeking accreditation? If so, where can we access it? Frank Frank Pyefinch [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
