Ed, Are you planning to publish your paper? Sounds like a lot of work and I'd be interested in reading it.
Thanks, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "William E Hammond" <[email protected]> To: <openehr-technical at openehr.org> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:22 AM Subject: Re: difficulties starting an implementation > Ian, > > I am writing a paper on national mandates for HIT and on nation adoptions > of the EHR. Can you point me to some documentation on Scotlands plans? > > Thanks > > Ed Hammond > > > > > Ian McNicoll MMS > <ian at gpacc.co.uk> To: openehr-technical at openehr.org > Sent by: cc: > owner-openehr-technical@ Subject: Re: difficulties starting an implementation > openehr.org > > > 01/18/2006 03:47 PM > Please respond to > openehr-technical > > > > > > > Hello again Rong, > > Glad to hear things are progressing. Do you have any thoughts about > persistence layer options? > > In Scotland there is a hope to move to a single EHR for the whole > country across all specialities. Personally I remain unconvinced that > this is totally achievable, but if it is, it will demand a highly > flexible and extensible architecture, backed by an equally structured > complex persistence layer - the traditional relational DB will simply > not work. > > Regards, > Ian > > > > > > As I promised to reply to your post on the list, here I am. :) > > > > Personally I am convinced it is possible to implement the openEHR > > specification even at this stage. We, at Acode, already proved it by > > building a pilot EHR system which meets real-life requirement. Of > > course, it wasn't easy since we started from scratch with the Java > > implementation (kernel, parser, persistence, GUI), but also the > > specification has been a moving target. After the version 1.0 > > specification is released, the situation will be quite different. Since > > then, there won't be any major changes on the reference model which > > really is the foundation of interoperable EHRs. This will hopefully > > encourage more open source or commercial development on openEHR in the > > near future. > > > > Cheers, > > > >
