Like Laura, Ed, and others I do believe there are things that can be learned by looking at the experiences of OpenEHR/HL7v3 implementations, and by listening to the best practices of those implementers. So allow me to interject the following invitation into the fray:
The RIMBAA HL7 Workgroup (see http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=RIMBAA) is effectively the HL7 Software Implementers community; and one with a special interest: the use of the HL7 v3 reference model as a data model for in memory object processing (business/service layer) and as a persistence model. RIMBAA has the aim to document existing implementations, and not to discuss theoretical issues. Some of the implementers of RIMBAA style applications are also implementers of CEN 13606 and/or OpenEHR, and they suggested that it could be fruitful (given the location of the upcoming international HL7 meeting in Australia) to have a discussion on "shared challenges", in order to re-use some of the implementation best practices discovered in one community within the other community. Software implementers have to deal with issues such as model driven application development with templates/archetypes/DCMs, reference model based persistence, GUI generation based on archetypes/templates etc. If an HL7 RIMBAA software implementer reads something like http://www.serefarikan.com/?p=97 there appear to be a lot of common issues faced by both implementer communities. *Note:* any discussion related to "modeling aspects" are explicitely out of scope of the meeting. The intent is to soley focus on those issues faced by software programmers and software architects that are faced with the issue of having to support a complex reference model based standard. However good or bad, they have to make it work. The draft agenda of the Sydney meeting can be found here: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=RIMBAA_201101_Agenda. It does contain a list of suggested agenda items; I'm open to suggestions as to other software implementation topics that are of interest to both implementer communities, as well as to links to OpenEHR materials (wiki or otherwise) that already exist which are related to the topics mentioned on the agenda. TTYL, -Rene -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Rene Spronk Cell: +31 (0)655 363 446 Senior Consultant Fax: +31 (0)318 548 090 Ringholm bv The Netherlands http://www.ringholm.com mailto:Rene.Spronk at ringholm.com twitter:@Ringholm skype:rene_ringholm Ringholm is registered at the Amsterdam KvK reg.# 30155695 ------------------------------------------------------------ Ringholm bv - Making Standards Work - Courses and consulting
