Thomas Beale wrote: > > It occurred to me after the recent exchanges that there may be some > people out there who do not realise something basic about openEHR, which > is that it is working at two levels. The first level is "abstract > specifications" - i.e. the technology- and platform-independent > specifications mentioned by Dave and Tom C. earlier.
/snip/ > Anything to do with expressions in certain languages like XML, C++, Java > or whatever, are all in the second level - "Implementation Technology > Specifications" - ITSs (this is the term HL7 uses for the same purpose > by the way, and in the interests of reducing jargon, we use it too). So > - any actual system or data model is an ITS, not a abstract specification. /big snip/ Another thing, perhaps even more fundamental, that wasn't clear to me is that the openEHR software is an EHR server, not the client applications that will access it. Many thanks to Sam H. for making that clear to me. Bill - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

