Dear Dr. Hammond, We now have started a very ambitious national EHR project called Turkish Health Information System which addresses nearly all aspects of the domain...I am not so sure whether it will be a success but it the current government is very serious about it and employed highly qualified professionals. There is an English document you can examine:
Title: Review of and Recommended Improvements to Turkey eHealth Strategy By: Salah Mandil, Ph.D. Senior Expert Consultant on eHealth & eStrategies, to the International Telecommunications Union and, Former Director Health Informatics & Telematics World Health Organisation Geneva, Switzerland The pdf is at: http://www.saglik.gov.tr/eng/turkeyehealth_bu.pdf Best regards, Dr. Koray Atalag > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org [mailto:owner-openehr- > technical at openehr.org] On Behalf Of William E Hammond > Sent: 19 Ocak 2006 Per?embe 16:22 > To: openehr-technical at openehr.org > 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, > > > >
