Should this list receive notifications for changes to ADL reference archetypes schemas?

2011-01-14 Thread William E Hammond
Same for me. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Grahame Grieve grahame at kestral.

Should this list receive notifications for changes to ADL reference archetypes schemas?

2011-01-14 Thread William E Hammond
Of course it is more the volume of activity than the number of lists. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Andrew Patterson

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread William E Hammond
I have to admit that I am tired of the HL7 bashing, most specifically by Thomas. In my opinion, it serves no purpose. I would hope Thomas would spend his energy in a positive direction, not by bashing HL. Further, quoting a blog from someone who has problems with HL7 does not make his case nor

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread William E Hammond
practices. So the sector continues to suffer and make limited progress. I wish HL7 would adopt recognised modelling practices, because then we could make very fast progress. - thomas On 25/11/2010 15:22, William E Hammond wrote: I have to admit that I am tired of the HL7 bashing, most

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread William E Hammond
, because then we could make very fast progress. - thomas On 25/11/2010 15:22, William E Hammond wrote: I have to admit that I am tired of the HL7 bashing, most specifically by Thomas. In my opinion, it serves no purpose. I would hope Thomas would spend his

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread William E Hammond
/11/2010 15:22, William E Hammond wrote: I have to admit that I am tired of the HL7 bashing, most specifically by Thomas. In my opinion, it serves no purpose. I would hope Thomas would spend his energy in a positive direction, not by bashing HL. Further

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread William E Hammond
, including people in key positions in e-health programmes around the world. - thomas On 25/11/2010 17:26, William E Hammond wrote: OK. I accept the comment. However, the problem I have is that many of the comments are a matter of opinion - that's ok, but it is not a right

HL7 modelling approach

2010-11-25 Thread William E Hammond
. - thomas p.s. if v3 was so good and easy, I am pretty sure Stan would have introduced it at IHC. On 25/11/2010 17:31, William E Hammond wrote: HL7 is following basic modeling procedures in the minds of a lot of people. HL7 and CDISC, for example, have worked together to produce

World Peace

2010-11-24 Thread William E Hammond
Long live Mircosoft. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oce

More on ISO 21090 complexity

2010-11-19 Thread William E Hammond
Tom, Now I know why HL7 has so much trouble. -- just basic god practice. Shouldn't god be capitalized? I think HL7 needs to pay Tom a consulting fee - for all the advice. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics

More on ISO 21090 complexity

2010-11-19 Thread William E Hammond
So what does he win? W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Randolph Neall randy.neall at veri

More on ISO 21090 complexity

2010-11-19 Thread William E Hammond
advice over the years ;-) On 19/11/2010 19:54, William E Hammond wrote: Tom, Now I know why HL7 has so much trouble. -- just basic god practice. Shouldn't god be capitalized? I think HL7 needs to pay Tom a consulting fee - for all the advice

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-12 Thread William E Hammond
I like it I hope others help me build my menangre. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Williamtfgoossen@ cs.com

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-09 Thread William E Hammond
I always thought of myself as a jackass. Perhaps other animals will declare themselves. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Charles McCay

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-08 Thread William E Hammond
I appreciate all of the remarks that have been make thus far. I am responding because I think we might have some shot at being better. I think many of you tak pot-shots at HL7, and that's OK. An elephant is easier to hit than an ant. In the early years, HL7 had only a few members who were very

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-08 Thread William E Hammond
Thanks. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics Williamtfgoossen@ cs.com

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-07 Thread William E Hammond
It is not clear to me that Tom's remarks help either. HL7 had data types very early. That is not the point. The issue is is there anything in the future we can agree and work togwether. Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion we cannot not, and as a result we shall let the market make

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-06 Thread William E Hammond
I agree with Dqavid's points. The world, unfortunately, is not perfect. Understanding how the ISO data types standard came into being might be useful in understanding why it is as it is. After more than 5 years in trying to get a g;obal standard for data type, a group, lead by Graham Grieve,

ISO 21090 data types too complex?

2010-11-06 Thread William E Hammond
for HL7-based messaging. It doesn't make sense as an ISO standard; it is really an HL7 standard. - thomas On 06/11/2010 18:39, William E Hammond wrote: I agree with Dqavid's points. The world, unfortunately, is not perfect. Understanding how the ISO data types standard came

Articles on Healthcare, Complexity, Change, Process, IT and the role of openEHR etc

2010-10-22 Thread William E Hammond
___ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical[attachment dmeyer.vcf deleted by William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke] ___ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2010-07-16 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting 07/12/2010 and will not return until 07/17/2010. I will have limited access to e-mail during this period.

Decision Support Providers

2010-06-28 Thread William E Hammond
Thanks Tony. I have always tried to be open to the best solutions to my problems. Frequently it is a combination of resources. Of course, we also have a lot of local debbates and discussions. W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D. Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics

Decision Support Providers

2010-06-27 Thread William E Hammond
. - thomas On 26/06/2010 22:34, William E Hammond wrote: Actually, my e-mail was more of a hello. I didn't think you were giving Duke a hard time. Our approach is similiar to what you are doing, however, we are focusing at the atomic level. Building from that is simply

Decision Support Providers

2010-06-26 Thread William E Hammond
Hi Thomas, I am now back at Duke in a full time capacity. The work within HL7 is being lead by Ken Kawamoto from Duke, a colleague of mine. Duke has one fo the best clinical research enterprises in the world - the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the new Duke Translational Medical

Decision Support Providers

2010-06-26 Thread William E Hammond
with much greater flexibility. Please don't think I would seriously question Duke's clinical work. I just think you are working with the wrong IT;-) regards - thomas On 26/06/2010 19:28, William E Hammond wrote: Hi Thomas, I am now back at Duke in a full time capacity. The work within

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2010-03-22 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting 03/21/2010 and will not return until 03/26/2010. I will have limited access to e-mail during this period.

Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-01 Thread William E Hammond
Not trying to start a war, but I am disappointed at the continued dialog that is negative toward HL7. If, in fact, openEHR has solved all of the problems of interoperability and is being picked up around the world, I, and I think, many of my HL7 colleagues will be delighted. Very few of the

Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-01 Thread William E Hammond
and governance framework. It could be possible, at the price of some dented egos. History says it will remain a dream. What would it take to overcome that? (Proper funding might be one answer) - thomas beale On 01/02/2010 15:51, William E Hammond wrote: Not trying to start a war, but I am

Interoperability with HL7

2010-02-01 Thread William E Hammond
On 01/02/2010 17:07, William E Hammond wrote: I like your reply. I am willing to commit to putting energy behind merging al standards groups, probably under ISO. Not wanting to be more of a trouble-maker than usual, but I would have to say

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2009-12-03 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting 12/03/2009 and will not return until 12/18/2009. I will have limited access to e-mail during this period.

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2009-05-06 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting 05/05/2009 and will not return until 05/17/2009. I will have limited access to e-mail during this period.

Layers of interoperability, OWL and openEHR

2009-04-22 Thread William E Hammond
An interesting discussion. However, I am aware that humans oftern make errors, the majority of which is misunderstanding of the words spoken by another. The commpent in violent agreement comes to mind. Even wars have occured as a result of misunderstanding. Communications and creativity may be

AW: OpenEHR'ED

2009-02-24 Thread William E Hammond
An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20090224/e06f8446/attachment.html -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dmeyer.vcf Type: application/octet-stream Size:

Please respond by Nov. 5th:Known Free/Open Source EHR/EMR Deployment Count.

2008-11-06 Thread William E Hammond
and people- needs--- Hope is what I reckon will allow us as human being to DO THE RIGHT THINGS every day. Cheers Carol Melbourne Australia -- From: William E Hammond hammo...@mc.duke.edu Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 5:28 AM To: For openEHR

HL7 and openEHR. was Re: Please respond by Nov. 5th: Known Free/Open Source EHR/EMR Deployment Count.

2008-11-06 Thread William E Hammond
01:11 EHR/EMR Deployment Count. PM Please respond to For openEHR technical discussions openehr-technica l at openehr.org William E Hammond wrote: Thomas, I am very

Please respond by Nov. 5th: Known Free/Open Source EHR/EMR Deployment Count.

2008-11-06 Thread William E Hammond
at openehr.org William E Hammond wrote: Thanks. I agree that things are moving ahead. I wish we could

AOM MOF mapping

2008-04-22 Thread William E Hammond
forward to a single logical representation of clinical content. Clinicians around the globe will appreciate this. Cheers, Sam William E Hammond wrote: Thanks for the response. I am not sure I agree that CCD is a paper, but I guess time will tell which is the way to go. Looks like HL7 needs

AOM MOF mapping

2008-04-21 Thread William E Hammond
Sam, Help me understand this exercise if CCD exists? Ed Sam Heard sam.heard at oceani

Formal methods for Evaluation ofInteroperability Maintainability?

2008-02-09 Thread William E Hammond
of this number of EHRs. Happy to take this offline and give you more details if you would like. regards Hugh William E Hammond wrote: Hugh, Can you expand on 20 million of what. I think htis is an astounding figure. What is the quality of the compositions? I'd like to have more

Formal methods for Evaluation ofInteroperability Maintainability?

2008-02-08 Thread William E Hammond
Hugh, Can you expand on 20 million of what. I think htis is an astounding figure. What is the quality of the compositions? I'd like to have more info if possible. I think that number ois much more than any of us anticipated. Thanks Ed Hammond

{Disarmed} Comparison of EHR models

2008-01-20 Thread William E Hammond
There is an English version of the comparison. I am sure Bernd would be happy to share. I think the article has some excellent thoughts and is not biased toward any one approach. I don't agree with everything, but I found the article useful. Ed Hammond

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2007-11-18 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting Sun 11/18/2007 and will not return until Fri 12/07/2007. I will have limited access to e-mail during this period.

[cis-wg] Complexity, killer apps and other conundrums of health information was: cis-wg Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12 (Juliana Brixey)

2007-03-21 Thread William E Hammond
in health care must be based on a REAL health care data model. Cheers, -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Consulting http://home.comcast.net/~tw_cook/ 01-904-322-8582 [attachment signature.asc deleted by William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke

[cis-wg] Complexity, killer apps and other conundrums of health information was: cis-wg Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12 (Juliana Brixey)

2007-03-21 Thread William E Hammond
of them - depending on the local point of view of its user ? I means getting closer from natural language and just setting a graph between concepts when a given data model is to be used. Regards, Philippe Ameline William E Hammond wrote: Tom and Tim, I am not sure what this messages says

So you think you know the solution?

2007-01-30 Thread William E Hammond
Seref, Thanks for sharing this great presentation. I enjoyed watcing the presentation and I was excited about thinking how to use that approach in presenting data about a patient to a provider. Ed Hammond |-+- | | Seref Arikan

Antw: Re: AW: HL7 templates/archetypes

2006-10-16 Thread William E Hammond
Gerard, It would help us to have the names and contact info for those implementations over many years. As you know there are also CDA and HL7 v3 implementations. I am trying to put together that list. Thank you for your support of these discussion. Ed

AW: HL7 templates/archetypes

2006-10-16 Thread William E Hammond
Our course mapping between two solutions is just postponing the issues. Maybe some day we will get to a single solution. Ed Hammond |-+- | | Thomas Beale | | | Thomas.Beale at OceanInforma| | |

Antw: Re: Antw: Re: AW: HL7 templates/archetypes

2006-10-16 Thread William E Hammond
You assume the worst of me. It seems that looking at actual implementations of both 13606 and V3 will provide excellent experience data for both groups. I know V3 implementations, and did not know many 13606 implementations, altho I do know one system that has several implementations. So Bert,

Antw: Re: EHRcom/openEHR the new exciting paradigm

2006-09-16 Thread William E Hammond
Gerard, I am amazed at the comments to your collegue. We are making great strides in bringing ISO/CEN/HL7 together with the potential of taking a step beyond even harmonization. I am in favor of pro and con discussion. As I read your earlier mail, I interpret those remarks as saying we

removal of data

2006-05-04 Thread William E Hammond
it unavailable except in a legal(historical) view of the EHR is easy - built into the spec - it would only be seen with a historical view which can require further security (and even patient consent). Sam William E Hammond wrote: Maybe we Americans are the only ones who screw up, but one

removal of data

2006-05-04 Thread William E Hammond
On 4-mei-2006, at 15:01, William E Hammond wrote: Mcuh of an opinion of this topic depends on what your view of an EHR is. My view is very specific and focused.?? The EHR contains the data that is important for the present and future care of the patient

Pathology numeric values not supported in DV_Quantity

2006-04-26 Thread William E Hammond
Just yesterday I ran into this construct in looking at a dosing algorithm for pediatrics. Without the detail, the first time-related logic specified for the period of less than 7 days (7 days. The next logic line specified = 7 days. Without the =, the logic would have been awkward at best. Ed

Pathology numeric values not supported in DV_Quantity

2006-04-25 Thread William E Hammond
Althio it is possible to write the logic to avoid this need, I find it useful at times to express the logic with great than or equal to make it clear what the logic says. The overhead is minbor. I argue for retaining = and =. Ed Hammond

removal of data

2006-04-18 Thread William E Hammond
Maybe we Americans are the only ones who screw up, but one of the reasons I have to remove data from the EHR is when the data manages to get into the wrong patient's record. Unfortunately for every right way to do something, there are many wrong ways. I have said that if I did not have to design

HIT Mandates was: difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread William E Hammond

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2005-11-26 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting 11/23/2005 and will not return until 11/28/2005. I will no access during this period. - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

William E Hammond/Dept_CFM/mc/Duke is out of town.

2005-09-13 Thread William E Hammond
I will be out of the office starting 09/10/2005 and will not return until 09/25/2005. I will have limited access during this period. - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

Issue 1

2005-05-29 Thread William E Hammond
However, in my opinion, one can have too much data. Information, by definition, is more than data and conveys something understandable and useful that was not known before. Information deals with raising entrophy. Long story short, designers of systems need to undersatnd the difference in data

Age

2005-01-31 Thread William E Hammond
For an age, I agree that the date of birth is adequate as long as you remember people do not age after they die. It is also convenient to have a reference time mark for many things, including conception, start of a course of treatment. Adjectives and nouns are difficult to put into algorithms

Age

2005-01-31 Thread William E Hammond
Who are you calling elderly? I still hold out for age, even if it is fuzzy. Ed Gerard Freriks gfrer at luna.nl@openehr.org on 01/31/2005 04:25:17 PM Please respond to Gerard Freriks gfrer at luna.nl Sent by:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org To:William E Hammond hammo001

Open Source EHR at the Americal Academy of Family Physicians ...

2003-09-26 Thread William E Hammond
I basically agree. I think I mean both clinical and economical. What I am hoping for is that we can create a single process in which all the appropriate terminologies can be blended, overlaps and mapping, and distribution made common. Do it once not each institution or even each country. I

Open Source EHR at the Americal Academy of Family Physicians ...

2003-09-25 Thread William E Hammond
I agree with Gerard that we need to be careful. However, that does not mean that we go to the lowest denominator. IF we think SNOMED is the best solution, then we need to spend our time and energy on finding how to make SNOMED available to the rest of the world. We have a debate in our

Antw: Re: Open Source EHR at the Americal Academy of Family Physicians ...

2003-09-25 Thread William E Hammond
William, I do not think you are over reacting. I agree with you. My only point is that we should be driven by what is best and what is a true solution, and not by the wrong reasons. I would be most interested in seeing us compile a list of candidates for terminologies that should be

[Fwd: RE: Subject of care]

2002-12-20 Thread William E Hammond
We actually dealt with this topic at Duke in the OB system in the early 1980s. We did create a record. One interesting problem was ghost pregnancies in which it appeared for a period of time to have two fetuses later to be one. Our actually execution turned out to not create the new baby