Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-18 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim, a few points by way of response: 1. the NCSA web server (which I used to administer in one company) was built by normal paid engineers in jobs where they were directed to build that tool - i.e. dedicated paid time. 2. there has been no barrier that I am aware of to people wanting to

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-18 Thread Erik Sundvall
Hi! On 16/11/2010 12:44, Tim Cook wrote: Democratizing innovation / Eric von Hippel. ISBN 0-262-00274-4 On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:51, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: this is an interesting looking book, I downloaded it. However, as I and I imagine others won't get

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-18 Thread Thomas Beale
I should have added earlier that the openEHR Java project is a pretty good example of the meritocracy Tim wants to see. It has 16 committers, and the list remains as active as ever, with a large number of subscribers. Although currently under-resourced, it works in exactly the way it should,

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-18 Thread Thomas Beale
I should have added earlier that the openEHR Java project is a pretty good example of the meritocracy Tim wants to see. It has 16 committers, and the list remains as active as ever, with a large number of subscribers. Although currently under-resourced, it works in exactly the way it should,

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-17 Thread Seref Arikan
Greetings, I can see a specific pattern emerging in the recent mails of this thread, to which I'd like to response, and contribute. I will repeat my point I've made some time ago in this discussion, and by doing so I will insist on it. To deliver what openEHR is capable of, there is a significant

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim, this is an interesting looking book, I downloaded it. However, as I and I imagine others won't get through 220 pages instantly, do you want to summarise what you see as the lessons from it, while this discussion is still warm? - thomas On 16/11/2010 12:44, Tim Cook wrote: Hi Tom, On

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Cook
Hi Tom, On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 15:51 +, Thomas Beale wrote: Tim, this is an interesting looking book, I downloaded it. However, as I and I imagine others won't get through 220 pages instantly, Well, that is all a matter of personal cost/benefit; isn't? :-) do you want to summarise

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-17 Thread Erik Sundvall
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:27, Seref Arikan serefarikan at kurumsalteknoloji.com wrote: Let me specialize Tom's argument: as far as I know, no member of the openEHR community who is putting his/her work out there for others to used freely, is getting paid just for doing so. We don't get any

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-17 Thread Seref Arikan
Hi Erik, This bit: and there are very few instututions who let their intangible assets go into public domain. is written in the context of openEHR. openEHR may end up in a relationship with big vendors, similar to some of the examples you have provided. For this to happen, what we have out

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 22:19 +, Seref Arikan wrote: I personally see this big bootstrapping requirement as a unique problem of this domain, Compared to creating your own world class web server in the mid 1990's? RE: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-16 Thread Sam Heard
- bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Erik Sundvall Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 11:29 PM To: For openEHR technical discussions Subject: Re: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? Hi! On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:03, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: there are zero paid openEHR

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-16 Thread Tim Cook
Hi Tom, On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 16:25 +, Thomas Beale wrote: a few points informally (I am not on any boards of any organisations, so these are my own thoughts): * any organisation like openEHR needs some core paid people to execute key functions, and to maintain continuity.

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-15 Thread Erik Sundvall
Hi! On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:03, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: there are zero paid openEHR people, full-time or part-time. That is not such a useful way of looking at openEHR funding. There are a lot of people working with openEHR on paid time during working hours.

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-15 Thread pablo pazos
Hi Erik, Hi! On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:03, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: there are zero paid openEHR people, full-time or part-time. That is not such a useful way of looking at openEHR funding. There are a lot of people working with openEHR on paid time

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-15 Thread Thomas Beale
Erik, a few points informally (I am not on any boards of any organisations, so these are my own thoughts): * any organisation like openEHR needs some core paid people to execute key functions, and to maintain continuity. There is an 'officers' level, which runs any

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-15 Thread Thomas Beale
One further point I omitted - a key activity that has to be done by orgs like openEHR is education, dissemination and communication. This is also normally related to one or more paid posts in such organisations, because it is so critical. - thomas

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Beale
Here is a wiki page for governance discussion - http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom/Community+Governance Bob Mayes is a great guy by the way, he worked for many years in Zimbabwe. - thomas On 05/11/2010 01:21, pablo pazos wrote: Hi Thomas, I see we agreed in much of the points, I

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-08 Thread pablo pazos
: pazospa...@hotmail.com To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: RE: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:22:32 -0300 Great Thomas, I'll put there some ideas to discuss with the community. -- Atte. A/C Pablo Pazos Guti?rrez LinkedIn: http://uy.linkedin.com

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-08 Thread Ann Wrightson (NWIS - Technical)
: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? There are many things that can be improved in openEHR, no doubt about it. Some comments. First of all, HL7 charges membership fees, meeting attendance fees and purchase fees for the standards; a small company can easily spend $10,000 - $20,000 per annum just

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-07 Thread pablo pazos
From: thomas.be...@oceaninformatics.com To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? Here is a wiki page for governance discussion - http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom/Community+Governance Bob Mayes is a great

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-04 Thread Thomas Beale
There are many things that can be improved in openEHR, no doubt about it. Some comments. First of all, HL7 charges membership fees, meeting attendance fees and purchase fees for the standards; a small company can easily spend $10,000 - $20,000 per annum just on the cash outlay. Larger

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-04 Thread pablo pazos
Hi Thomas, I didn't mean that we have to follow the HL7 structure and ways of funding. They have good and bad things, as you point. One of the good things is that a set of small regional communities are stronger than a huge central community, because they have common interests, common

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-04 Thread pablo pazos
Hi Thomas, I see we agreed in much of the points, I hope to see other's visions. Governance is a good issue to discuss with the community, but I can't see any governance if the OpenEHR boards are distant from the community, and do not understand their real needs. What I was really talking

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-03 Thread pablo pazos
LinkedIn: http://uy.linkedin.com/in/pablopazosgutierrez Blog: http://informatica-medica.blogspot.com/ S?gueme en twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:25:17 +0900 Subject: Re: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? From: sk...@moss.gr.jp To: openehr-implementers at openehr.org Hi Pablo

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-02 Thread Dr Lavanian
:36 AM Subject: Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow? Hi Thomas, My opinion is the grade of adoption of a standard depend in some aspects of goverment agencies, in some of the industry and some of the academy. DICOM is a good example of an open standard heavily supported by the industry

Why is OpenEHR adoption so slow?

2010-11-02 Thread Seref Arikan
Hi Pablo, A very useful insight into the issues indeed. This is one topic that may end up being a quite long discussion, but I feel it is a topic that is worth laying out, not only today, but every couple of years or so, to see where we are. I'll provide my personal views here. openEHR is not a