Hi Sam, You might have been thinking about this: www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hl7-makes-ip-freely-available-ehrs and https://www.hl7.org/store/index.cfm?item=DAMFP
Klaus _________________________________________________ Klaus D Veil Adj. Assoc. Professor - University of Western Sydney Vice-President - Australasian College of Health Informatics CoChair - Standards Australia IT014-06 & IT014-06-03 Past Chair - HL7 Australia Certified V2.4, V2.5 & V2.6 Specialist - HL7 Intl. (USA) Principal - HL7 Systems & Services, Sydney, Australia Phone: +61 412 746 457 Skype: KlausDVeil Fax: +61 2 9475 0303 e-Mail: Klaus at Veil.net.au Profile: www.Veil.net.au <http://www.veil.net.au/> -----Original Message----- From: openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Sam Heard Sent: Monday, 19 March 2012 09:34 To: 'For openEHR technical discussions' Subject: RE: openEHR-technical Digest, Vol 67, Issue 34 Hi Tim HL7 Twittered about making things more openly available the other day....does anyone have the link? Cheers, Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical- > bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Cook > Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 4:44 AM > To: For openEHR technical discussions > Subject: Re: openEHR-technical Digest, Vol 67, Issue 34 > > How can anyone say that HL7 is open in any fashion? You are not free > to distribute it outside of your organization except in small parts so > that the specifications cannot reproduced. > > See the paragraph immediately preceding the one previously quoted here: > > "HL7 CORPORATE/ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS are authorized to: > > reproduce and distribute Material on an internal basis solely for > use within their organization; > reproduce and distribute excerpts of Material (not entire domains > or chapters) to any customers of a product or service implementing > those Material, provided that the HL7 Access database may not be > included, either in whole or in part, in any product intended for > direct or indirect commercial resale; > use excerpts of Material to create customized implementation > guides; and > use Material in the development of software applications and > messaging systems for direct use or distribution without additional > licensing fees." > > There is NOTHING open about this, fee paid or not. > > --Tim > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 17:55, Thomas Beale > <thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > > On 20/02/2012 22:34, William Goossen wrote: > > > > Hi Heath, Thomas, > > > > My experience is that HL7 v3 is an open standard and OpenEHR is > > proprietary (as owned by the OpenEHR foundation holding the > > copyrights, albeit I understand that work is underway to sort that > out). > > > > > > > > Correction: HL7 is open, although requires a small fee for use; > > openEHR is an open and free specification. Neither are proprietary; > > proprietary essentially means 'not openly published and usable'. > > That does not apply to either HL7 or openEHR. > > > > - thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openEHR-technical mailing list > > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > > > > > -- > ============================================ > Timothy Cook, MSc > LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook > Skype ID == timothy.cook > Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.or g -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120319/af4dbdcc/attachment-0001.html>
