I read the recently released O'Reilly book "Meaningful Use and Beyond" on Safari books today and found the following errors and some quite blatantly false statements about OpenEHR.
Firstly is the claim by one of the authors, David Uhlman, that he was CTO of openEHR in 2001 - a claim which Thomas Beale denies. * David Uhlman is CEO of ClearHealth, Inc., which created and supports ClearHealth, the first and only open source, meaningful use-certified, comprehensive, ambulatory EHR.... David entered health-care in 2001 as CTO for the OpenEHR project. One of the first companies to try commercializing open source healthcare systems , OpenEHR met face first with the difficult realities of bringing proven mainstream technologies into the complicated and some- * *times nonsensical world of healthcare.* * * Secondly, a nonsensical statement about openEHR in the book... p.161 *OpenGALEN and OpenEHR are both attempts to promote open source ontology con-* *cepts. Both of the projects have been maturing but some view these as unnecessary* *additions or alternatives to SNOMED+UMLS. However, they are available under open* *source licensing terms might make them a better alternative to SNOMED for certain* *jurisdictions.* And this, p163... *OpenEHR is a controversial approach to applying knowledge engineering principles* *to the entire EHR, including things like the user interfaces. You might think of Open-* *EHR as an ontology for EHR software design. Many health informaticists disagree on* *the usefulness of OpenEHR. Some believe that HL7 RIM, given its comprehensive* *nature, is the highest level to which formal clinical knowledge managing needs to go.* * * I'm beginning to lose all respect for O'Reilly press. It's been all downhill since the camel book. Cheers Michael Osborne * * -- Michael Osborne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120212/f523bb25/attachment.html>
