It is difficult for me to stay on the sidelines. HL7 recognizes the value of CEN and GEHR to its work. HL7, for example, has invited the chair of CEN and the convenors of the work groups to the next meeting. What I think we need to declare is what is real and what is pretend in working together - on both sides. I declare and I believe that HL7 is interested in both groups. What that means is not that we (or I) will drop what I am doing and accept something different. What it means that I am willing to dialog and debate the issues. I firmly believe that all groups will be mush better off if we discuss and deal with our differences rather than each go our different ways. We need to find a way for all groups to move ahead together and still do what we each have to do to stay alive and even grow. My belief is that V3 will become stable much more quickly than Gerard implies. I agree that CDA needs to move ahead with CDA level 3. I am also curious as to what clinical templates will do to level 3. I certainly hope we can get together on architypes, GPICS, clinical templates, and Huffs/3M clinical data models.
What say? Ed Hammond By the way, these are my opiniuons. I'm not sure anyone else wants them. Ed - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
