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

Tom and Tim, I am not sure what this messages says or recommends what we need to do. I particularly don't understand the comment The point is though, that the true killer app in health care must be based on a REAL health care data model. I think much of the clinical world is confused about the

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

Philippe, It seems almost blasphemy to not say you have to start with a model. I agree with you about the role of the model. In many cases its seems ytou build the model after you build the system, to show others what you did. Ed Hammond

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

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 14:27 -0700, Tom Lincoln wrote: Thanks for your reply... The situation is certainly more complex as the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture XML framework clearly demonstrates... Just picked the first and simplest examples at hand. Tom [apologies for cross posting but