Ed, I agree entirely with what you say. I keep being reminded of the excellent ISO definition of Consensus:
Consensus is general agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process which involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments. Tim -- Tim Benson Abies Ltd, 24 Carlingford Road, London NW3 1RX, UK +44 (0) 20 7431 6428, tb at abies.co.uk > From: "William E Hammond" <hammo001 at mc.duke.edu> > Reply-To: "William E Hammond" <hammo001 at mc.duke.edu> > Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 13:50:25 -0400 > To: Gerard Freriks <gfrer at luna.nl> > Cc: Mike Mair <mikemair at es.co.nz>, Sam Heard <sam.heard at > flinders.edu.au>, > Thomas Beale <thomas at deepthought.com.au>, <openehr-technical at > openehr.org>, > Stan Huff <COSHuff at ihc.com>, "Rishel,Wes" <wes.rishel at gartner.com> > Subject: Re: The concept of contribution > > > 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 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
