Hi Thomas, My own impressions from this presentation also concern openEHR, and I'd like to take the contributors opinions if it is possible. The thing that struck me most in terms of facts provided is; in terms of certain points, how fragmented and differantiated a geographical location can be in itself. I at least, have a bulk perception of EU and USA, and in terms of requirements, policies etc, I consider a prototype set of requirements. However, what I get from this presentation is; there are not locations, there are levels of healhtcare IT, which cut across the locations, and it would be interesting to know the weights of these levels. Why you may ask; well, when I look at openEHR, I see this pretty strong idea and work gone to it; and it seems like it has the potential to be implemented in many ways. It can be either embedded in a vendor's solution, be a product by itself( a core repository functionality with added services around it), a central solution for a government project etc.. What I am trying to say is; when implementing a solution (whatever it is) based on openEHR, the most crowded level I mentioned above, the one with most population that has a potential impact on world level health IT is the one to watch. USA market for example provides an interesting example. Many google searches return results showing me that somehow, Microsoft has been providing CDA related functionality to its products(Infopath seems to be hot). Now that's an implementation to watch for; since "for USA market", giving the common practitioner (sorry for the lack of detail for the definition) an everyday tool fit for him/her, and capability to use data based on a standard, is a strong support for the standard. What I want to say is; without a doubt there are many brilliant people working on guiding the implemantations based on openEHR, and while doing that, choosing that first point of contact with health IT, is a critical decision to make. Maybe thinking about the wide and potentially high impact stereotype user can accelerate the implementation of openEHR? And (if not done before) such a consideration of critical point of entry can give clues about the "favored" implementation. Well, just my two cents; but in the context of openEHR and similar work, the presentation gave me these thoughts.
Best Regards Seref Thomas Beale wrote: > Seref Arikan wrote: > >> Hi, >> The following link contains a MUST see speech of Hans Rosling. Rosling >> is a professor of international health, and as you can see, he has some >> excellent points about the way we perceive certain things. >> I believe his wonderful presentation has very good points for many of >> us. And here we go >> http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080 >> >> >> >> > This is indeed brilliant stuff. I think what Rosling does here and what > Al Gore has done in his film simply by putting facts on the big screen > in a way that any person can grasp is really to be applauded. One lesson > for openEHR: we can aspire to make to make openEHR as friendly as > possible to future 'open data' initiatives... > > - thomas beale > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical
