Grahame Grieve wrote: > >> Decision-makers need to study evidence, not words. > > Evidence is just more words. And the key > issue is how to discern them. > > Standards are necessarily competing - that allows > market forces to work. > I expect Graham was grinning and pulling Tom's leg a bit when he wrote this about evidence and market forces, so don't take my further thought, here, too seriously.
- as one of my heroes, Richard Feynmann, once said, you can prove anything by analogy... But, in a week when world financial systems are being placed on hugely costly life support, on the edge of market collapse, Graham's thought about market forces made me think a bit, too, about an analogy of information standards as currencies and the wider collapse of confidence in information systems which we seem to be heading towards. It's important to sustain some focus on learning, practically and experimentally (evidentially), about making information systems that work. The hundred page documents on interoperability, doing the rounds, are derivative products of a kind, adducing rather little direct evidence of what is needed and what will work, in everyday health care contexts. Sadly, too much money ploughed into derivative markets has tended to undermine practical governance of underlying, more practical, markets which were, once upon a time, more the real deal. The good thing is, in the case of money, it's only money! In the case of health, it's health and well-being, which matter or will matter, a bit more, to all of us. David I > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > >
