Hi, Thomas Beale asked me to write more to this mailinglist, and I have an important issue to discuss.
Last thursday, I had a meeting wherein Thomas was present, in fact, it was education about EN13606. After a whole day of talking, by Thomas, he really did a good job. I noticed there was no mention about GPICs, and I asked Thomas, how GPICs fitted in his story. He said to my surprise, that they didn't. GPICs were in fact, obsoleet. But one could still use them to migrate data to an archetype-ready data layer. I was shocked, how is it possible that in silence a 400 pages part of a standard can be declared obsoleet. One throws away many many years of expensive work. Not only the standardisation comitee which must have worked for years on this, but also work from early adapters like me. I understand that it is better to change half way than to proceed in error. But if such an important change takes place, one will want to know how it is possible that such an erroneous large part (400 pages, 200 classes) of the standard can exist for so many years, and does not get critized publically. Something serious must be wrong somewhere. What also seems very strange to me, I discussed a GPIC SubjectOfInvestigation with Edward Glueck and Tom Marley on 25 may 2005, I discussed GPICs with Gerard Freriks on 4 jun 2005. No mention about the fact that GPICs are obsoleet, or will be obsoleet in a few weeks from then. Then on 14 july 2005 I hear that GPICs do not play a role in the EN13606 standard. Really, I am completely flabbergasted. And not only me, I guess, but also the organisations which paid my expenses for quite some time. I wonder if there are some opinions about this subject. Kind regards Bert Verhees - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
