Dear all, The work by CCHIT in the USA is well known to me. EuroRec (the European Institute for Health Records) co-operates with the CCHIT on quality labeling and certification of EHR-systems. This includes functional and later semantic interoperability aspects. Before mid 2008 the first European project will be finished. This Q-Rec project will include the governance of Archetypes and Templates.
In my personal view it is likely that OpenEHR will play a pivotal role in Europe when it comes to testing and certifying semantic interoperability in Europe. EHR-systems, archetypes and Templates. The discussion the last days was very interesting. With regards, Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, MD Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252544896 M: +31 620347088 E: gfrer at luna.nl Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Seref Arikan wrote: > Hi Rong, > Interesting discussion indeed. For any standards based project, > integration / communication of two different systems includes many > hidden costs. It is quite hard to imagine the potential problems > that may arise when making two different apps talk to each other, > even if they conform to same standards. The problems appear in the > technology level, since application A and B might be implementing > the standards in very different ways. So, any systems validation > work is priceless for it might give a set of best practices for > various types of applications. > I have previously implemented a solution for connecting a legacy app > to a hl7 v2 based system. In theory, everyting should work fine, > especially if you think about the relative simplicity of V2. > However, when your only option is to use a web services based > communication, a legacy app running on oracle forms 4.5 becomes a > nightmare. I had to design a seperate java application, which was my > only way out, but still I do not feel comfortable about it. This > kind of tacid knowledge is priceless, and represents another layer > of connectivity, which in my opinion is very important, and can not > be obtained without actual experience. > Regarding your work, maybe you'd like to take a look at this: > http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8125 > . It does not provide a lot of details, and probably not relevant, > but might give some clues for a potential future platform you might > consider using > > All the best > Seref Arikan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20071112/0a28a6ba/attachment.html>
