> Hi Heath, > > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:32 +0100, Heath Frankel wrote: > > As stated previously, the TDS is not > > intended for information exchange, but as a tool for integration. > > This may be getting too philosophical for my small brain. > > I do apologize for being so "dense". But I cannot reconcile the > difference you are claiming between "information exchange" and > "integration". > > Isn't 'integration' the process of validating/coordinating 'information > exchange'? >
Heath is just using this terminology to distinguish between local systems that feed into EHR systems from self-standing EHR/EMR systems which might talk to each other. Actually, the division is not that clear - we use the TDS message to handle CDA documents from some sources (which may be EMR-like) because it works better, and writing a generic transform for CDA level 3 (fully structured) is hard. - thomas beale
