Alvin,
I'm new to the openhealth list-serve, so apologies if I'm saying things you
guys already know.
I think you will find the Object Management Group (OMG) in general, and
CORBAmed in particular, a target rich environment for harvesting previous OO
work in the health care domain. Also, it is a great place to learn lessons
others have already learned, learn what commercial products are available,
and influence the course and priority of specifications/standards (which
eventually become ISO standards) for Health Care Domain Common Services.
Some examples of adopted specifications include Person Identification
Service, Clinical Observation Access Service, and Terminology Query Service.
You can get some sense of what OMG and CORBAmed do from a visit to the
omg.org webpages. As I wrote earlier today, a better idea is to watch OMG
and CORBAmed in action at a technical committee meeting. I'm in an airport,
on the way to one in Mesa, AZ now (again, info at omg.org). Next one is in
March, Denver, CO. BTW, Thomas Beale will be in Mesa this week, providing
us with a presentation on the GEHR architecture.
Seems to me that we (openhealth and CORBAmed) have potential for a great
deal of synergy. Historically, CORBAmed has been technically heavy. While
we always need more technical involvement, we are now actively seeking more
involvement from healthcare information stakeholders (in the IOM CPR study
sense) - clinicians, administrators, educators, researchers, and patients.
Interested?
Best regards,
Scott
Scott M. Eyestone, OD
Functional Co-chair, OMG/CORBAmed
Senior Research Scientist
Battelle Memorial Institute
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alvin Marcelo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Meeting and Standard objects
>
> Sam,
>
> I can't find the exact page for the model definition. Can you lead me to
> it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alvin
>
> > that I have seen is
> that from the Synapses project in Europe.
> > http://www.cs.tcd.ie/synapses/public/
> > As you know in GEHR we are presently building some protype archetypes
> which
> > fit the same role in the GEHR architecture but are independent of the
> > architecture schema. Let me know if you hear of any others.
> >
> > Sam
> > __________________________________________
> >
> > Sam Heard
> > Director, General Practice Education and Research Unit
> > Northern Territory Clinical School, Flinders University
> > PO Box 41326
> > Casuarina, NT 0811
> >
> > Ph: +61 8 8922 7937 Fx: +61 8 8922 7928
> > www.ntmed.flinders.edu.au
> >
> > The Good Electronic Health Record
> > A software innovation for the benefit of patients
> > www.gehr.org
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alvin Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, 7 January 2000 6:55
> > Subject: Meeting and Standard objects
> >
> >
> > > Two things:
> > >
> > > 1. Anyone volunteering to contact Tim O'Reilly for our inclusion?
> Anyone
> > > with info on when the next OReilly conf is going to be held? and
> where?
> > >
> > > 2. I was thinking...the VA has its business rules which it has
> > > painstakingly integrated into VistA...would these business rules apply
> to
> > > another institution, like for example, a private hospital? I doubt
> it...
> > >
> > > Maybe we are asking for too much. Maybe we shouldn't be discussing
> about
> > > EMR's but rather standard medical objects/building blocks from which
> we
> > > can each build our EMR's. Are there any available already?
> > >
> > > One object set has been posted by Nancy
> > > Orvis..
> > >
> > > http://www.hirs.osd.mil/hdp/
> > > Any comments on these? Can we start building objects from The OSD
> specs?
> > >
> > > Are there any other specs?
> > >
> > > 3. What is the best open source object oriented database management
> system
> > > currently available?
> > >
> > > Alvin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
