Dear Graham, I'm of the opinion that deployment of the European standard for the EHR/openEHR will make systems dramatically cheaper to produce and maintain; extremely flexible because of the archetype and template mechanism; and create semantic interoperability between conformant systems without a strong dependency on the co-operation of the software vendor.
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 24, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Grahame Grieve wrote: >> But I was of the impression that that was not the intention of the >> international >> health care community. > > in as much as such a diverse group can be said to have an intention, > it wanders > somewhere between cheap, flexible, and interoperable. But you can > only have two > of those three. > > Grahame -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20071125/9a638620/attachment.html>
