Klaus, Most of asia use ICD and other WHO standards. SNOMED is considered too expensive and too closed. I hope the new initiative would change that.
Nandalal --- Klaus Veil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian, > > I'd be happy to contribute something on HL7 and > would also help to get > speakers for the other standards. > > I do think we need a short session on terminology, > as this has the main > focus now. As you may be aware, SNOMED is in the > process of being > transformed into a more open international Standards > Development > Organisation (SDO) with a new HQ in Denmark. > > Klaus > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Christian Heller > Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 01:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics > > > > Hi Klaus, > > > Re question 3, I would like to suggest we look at > the topic "How can FOSS > > applications share data with other existing > healthcare applications?". > This > > aim of the topic is that there already are > well-established standards > (HL7, > > LOINC, SNOMED, etc.) in use in healthcare systems > and that to be able to > > integrate into existing healthcare institutions > any new (FOSS) system must > > be able to use these standards. We started on this > topic at the London > OSHCA > > meeting, but much more work needs to be done. > > yes, you are correct. As I wrote yesterday in my > other email on > "Getting OSHCA organised", it should not: > 1 Define technical architectures > 2 Mandate use of specific standards .. nor try to > define its own > That is at least what we in the committee agreed > upon. Opinions welcome. > > In other words, OSHCA should focus on > inter-operability using *existing* > standards, instead of defining its own, as you > write. However, it may > give recommendations on which standards to prefer. > Although OSHCA would > be neutral assessing standards, open standards would > clearly be preferred. > > My thoughts are that it'd be nice to have one-hour > presentations of > standards like HXP, HDTF (CORBAmed), OpenEHR, HL7, > xDT etc. on one day. > Ideally, the presentations would give few theory and > demonstrate on > practical examples (code snippets, live demo or > whatever), how they work, > just like at a developer's conference. Although I > know basic principles > behind most of these standards, the conference would > already be worth > visiting for me, because I'd get essential knowledge > in a compact form. > And this is presumably also what our Asian > (developer) colleagues > expect from the conference: to get a brief overview > of important > technologies. I suggest to exclude terminology > standards this time, > or to plan just one presentation giving an overview > of some of them. > Instead, we should focus on pure data exchange. > > But these are just my ideas and wishes. Others in > this list may vote > me down and change the conference agenda. Tell us > your wishes and we > will try to realise them. > > Christian > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
