Mike Mair wrote:
>Dear Thomas > >>>I am still not convinced that it is an EHR structure that has to be >>> >shared > >>>for meaningful communication. Both aspects of interoperabiliy, functional >>>and semantic, can be served without sharing an EHR structure. >>> >>Ah but they cannot - if you can't write software which can assume the >>structures of data, you cannot do anything at all. >> > >Popper would be proud of you - that's falsfiable. The structures of data and >those of EHR need not be the same (there's the rub) > we are at cross-purposes with our terms - the whole raison d'etre of the openEHR EHR model is to state the semantics of shareable EHRs. How anyone implements their own EHR system is their business, and the standard says nothing about that. Clearly all software written to the shareable EHR standard has to understand what it is in order to be able to do anything.. - thomas - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
