Andrew, sometimes you post some real gems. As you imply above, the only way public specifications like HL7, openEHR, etc can become truly ubiquitous and fully respected is if there are high-quality open source implementations out there, at least of the interoperability layer, to prevent corporations from using the vendor-lock-in strategy to segment the market.Finally, I don't see pure-standards efforts such as HL7 and OpenEHR giving us any "industry standard". It is against the vendors' interest to abide by adequately open standards. A sufficient industry standard can only come bundled with a sufficiently useful implementation.
- thomas
