There is 'Virtual EMR' project going on in HL7 do to exactly this sort of work i.e a relatively simple interface/ service against which decision support cab operate consistently - http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Virtual_Medical_Record_(vMR)
The big problem they will face, as ever, is defining the detailed clinical content in a manageable and scalable fashion. I think the openEHR approach to content definition has definite advantages. Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care SG Group www.phcsg.org / BCS Health Scotland On 25 June 2010 16:24, Shannon Tony (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) < tony.shannon at nhs.net> wrote: > FYI.. > > A thought provoking post from John Halamka on decision support providers as > service. > > http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2010/06/decision-support-service-providers.html > Some of you might have complementary/alternative views as to how this might > work within an openEHR enabled landscape... > > Rong > Would you like to comment? > Your recent work covered some of this key territory.. > > Regards, > > Tony > > > ******************************************************************************************************************** > > This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the > intended recipient please inform the > sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. > Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or > take any action in reliance on its contents: > to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. > > Thank you for your co-operation. > > NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS > staff in England and Scotland > NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive > information with NHSmail and GSI recipients > NHSmail provides an email address for your career in the NHS and can be > accessed anywhere > For more information and to find out how you can switch, visit > www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail > > > ******************************************************************************************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20100626/3675df9b/attachment.html>

