The same goes for SNOMED-CT. It is a proprietary standard and very expensive for poorer countries. So how can this become a standard nomenclature? Hopefully ICD-10-CM will see the light of day soon.... BTW ICD-10 -PCS seems very promising to me - even though not yet implemented.
Nandalal ----- Original Message ----- From: Horst Herb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:08:53 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OpenEHR vs. OIO semantics infrastructure, was Re: form-to-form translator, was Re: Solving the data type problem, was: ODB vs. RDMBS was: OIO-0.9.1 released > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:12, Thomas Beale wrote: > > exactly - this is the problem of N^2 translation that HL7v2 has. I was > > just saying that Andrew's statement that "HL7 has failed" is not totally > > correct; and regardless of the shortcomings (of which I can be as > > critical as anyone else), there are quite a lot of implementations, and > > there is a measure of success. It's been a step on the path, and a lot > > of things were learned. > > A lot has been learned, yes. But Andrew's statement - if we only look at what > is actually available AND in use today - is correct: HL7 has been en > exteremly expensive failure so far. A failure for more than a decade, that > is. > > Current development looks promising and I wish them wholehearted success - but > in one aspect they haven't learned from their past errors, and I consider > this non-learning a gloomy sign: that is, they don't publish their work > freely. You have to become a member to access their "standards". It does not > matter that membership is cheap - even a cent a year would not be acceptable > fpr the very reason that a standard cannot be a practical and ubiquitously > accepted standard (such as POP3, HTTP, HTML) unless the specifications are > freely accessible to anybody. > > Unless they start understanding this crucial issue, I reckon they are doomed. > No matter how much more money governments throw after them. The world in > general is not very fond of such "closed gentlemen's clubs", and end user > tolerance for such behaviour is close to zero nowadays. > > Horst > -- > "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. > Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers > come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas > that could provoke such a question." > -- Charles Babbage > -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
