difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Bert Verhees wrote: I understand more or less what you are saying about hard/soft parts, that is the good thing of OpenEhr which you explain. Very good. But you still need to store the soft parts, so you need a persistence layer. This layer must interface with the kernel. I did not find

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Bert Verhees wrote: I wonder, Ian, did you ever looked to Cache (www.intersystems.com) It is called Post-relational, this is because it also can understand SQL. But it is a kind of OO-database, I don't know if it has all the OO-particularities like (multiple)inheritence, or object as field of

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-20 Thread Bert Verhees
Message - From: Bert Verhees bert.verhees at rosa.nl To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:26 AM Subject: Re: difficulties starting an implementation I wonder, Ian, did you ever looked to Cache (www.intersystems.com) It is called Post-relational

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2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Beale
Ian McNicoll MMS wrote: Either there is a documented interface to a persistence layer, or there isn't. It is quite possible I missed it in the documentations But till now, I asked it three times in three days, is there a documented interface to a persistence layer? Or do I have to puzzle

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Beale
Bert Verhees wrote: That is good, this means we can trust the dotnet-dll's. I already loaded them in Borland dotnet studio, and everything seems to publish itself as it should. The only thing is that seems to Eiffel publish a lot more then you programmed. I am not sure what to do with it.

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Rong Chen
Ian McNicoll MMS wrote: Hello again Rong, Glad to hear things are progressing. Do you have any thoughts about persistence layer options? Hello Ian! Well, we have been exploring the persistence layer ourself. We started with using Prevayler for our demo application, and later chose to use

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2006-01-19 Thread Javier Valdes
I believe that Mr. (Dr.?) Ian McNicholl is refering specifically to the fact that implementing an EHR system solely using a relational DB is what won't work. I believe he's not refering to the whole concept of OpenEHR, but just to the fact that using a traditional relational system to store

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Bert Verhees
Op donderdag 19 januari 2006 11:18, schreef Rong Chen: snip I do not know if it is useable in OpenEhr context, but I like the ideas of Scott W. Ambler, he wrote a paper about persistence-layers:http://www.ambysoft.com/downloads/persistenceLayer.pdf This is about the same architecture as we

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2006-01-19 Thread Ian McNicoll MMS
Hi JV, Yes I am a doctor (GP) but no longer doing clinical work. I was not saying that a relational DB would not work, just that without O-R mapping tools or Row modelling/shredding techniques, it is very difficult to support the extensibility/adaptability required by clinical systems, to

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Ian McNicoll MMS
Bert Verhees wrote: I wonder, Ian, did you ever looked to Cache (www.intersystems.com) It is called Post-relational, this is because it also can understand SQL. But it is a kind of OO-database, I don't know if it has all the OO-particularities like (multiple)inheritence, or object as field of

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Ian McNicoll MMS
Hi William, Pleased to oblige. Scottish National eHealth.IM at T strategy: http://www.ehealth.scot.nhs.uk/ Scotland is a small country pop. 5 million but which now has completely devolved powers on Health matters and our flavour of NHS now differs substantially from that in England. We have

HIT Mandates was: difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:22 -0500, William E Hammond wrote: I am writing a paper on national mandates for HIT and on nation adoptions of the EHR. Can you point me to some documentation on Scotlands plans? Hi Ed, Additional resources that may be of help Canada Health Infoway:

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2006-01-19 Thread Koray Atalag
Of William E Hammond Sent: 19 Ocak 2006 Per?embe 16:22 To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: difficulties starting an implementation Ian, I am writing a paper on national mandates for HIT and on nation adoptions of the EHR. Can you point me to some documentation on Scotlands plans

HIT Mandates was: difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Smith
, January 19, 2006 8:58 AM To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: HIT Mandates was: difficulties starting an implementation Thanks to Tim. Great things often happen through mistakes. I had meant to send the email only to Ian and did not notice that I was sending to the group. I have had

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2006-01-19 Thread William E Hammond

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2006-01-18 Thread Sam Heard
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2006-01-18 Thread Bert Verhees
Op woensdag 18 januari 2006 01:16, schreef Sebastian Garde: Hi Bert, the way I understand the differences between openSDE and openEHR: Thanks, Sebastian, really helpful answer, gives something to think of Regards Bert Verhees

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2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Beale
Bert Verhees wrote: example A class has an interface, this what it makes visible to other classes. A property is some characteristic of a class. F.e a class Person has a property bodyLength. This can be in inches or centimeters. For example bodyLength can give you centimeters or inches,

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2006-01-18 Thread Philippe AMELINE
Hi, It seems to me you are turning around a really subtle and complex concept. Like a building, information systems must have some hard parts (to stand up) and a flexible content (so you can live in it). The usual way is to have the hard parts being whether a database model or some pieces of

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-18 Thread Bert Verhees
Op woensdag 18 januari 2006 17:10, schreef Ian McNicoll MMS: Either there is a documented interface to a persistence layer, or there isn't. It is quite possible I missed it in the documentations But till now, I asked it three times in three days, is there a documented interface to a

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2006-01-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 17:20 +0100, Bert Verhees wrote: Thanks Ian, thanks very much, for your clear answer. When there will come no further mails which state different, I take your answer for truth. I guess I have to write it myself, or get help from people which already did. The

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-18 Thread Rong Chen
Bert Verhees wrote: Op woensdag 18 januari 2006 17:10, schreef Ian McNicoll MMS: Either there is a documented interface to a persistence layer, or there isn't. It is quite possible I missed it in the documentations But till now, I asked it three times in three days, is there a documented

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-18 Thread Bert Verhees
Tim Cook wrote: Hi Bert, I think you are still a bit confused about What is OpenEHR? See the FAQ: http://openehr.org/FAQs/t_about_FAQ.htm OpenEHR is (essentially) a non-profit organization that produces specifications for an electronic health record. The specifications are implementation

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Gerard Freriks wrote: Bert, ITS = Implementable Technology Specification. It is an HL7 specific term. It is the process that translates an hierargical message specification of a domain information model into: Edifact, HL7v2, XML (HL7v3), or Java formats. I don't know whether they

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Bert Verhees wrote: but as I see, there are very impressive projects in the deploymentsector on the website. They must have used databases, other programming languages, UML created, component-interfaces, plans about how to follow the OpenEhr-developments. F.e. it does not seem effici?nt

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-17 Thread Bert Verhees
Hi Thomas and others, Before you start reading, I want to tell you, I think OpenEhr is a very valuable project, and many people want to use the concepts. There are however difficulties which I want to address. If sometimes my writings seem unpolite or harsh, please keep in mind that English is

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-17 Thread Koray Atalag
Of Bert Verhees Sent: 17 Ocak 2006 Sal?? 12:43 To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: difficulties starting an implementation Hi Thomas and others, Before you start reading, I want to tell you, I think OpenEhr is a very valuable project, and many people want to use the concepts

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-17 Thread Bert Verhees
Hi all, Got some tips, just put a database under it and a GUI above, and there is an application. Sounds to me like a practical joke ;-) If it is that easy? why isn't this easy piece of work not published, somewhere on the openehr website? I have no problem writing a GUI, or a

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-14 Thread Bert Verhees
Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 23:07 +0200, Bert Verhees wrote: Please correct me if I am wrong, Please take it as a request for information, or if I am wrong and need to be corrected, as a discussion. If you go here:

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-13 Thread Bert Verhees
Hi all, Some reders of this list have seen me before, I was implementing a part of the GPICs-environment, about a year ago. I do not do that anymore, the project stopped, it is regarded as finished. I am now studying OpenEhr for a new project. I spent yesterday all day on looking at the

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-13 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 10:07 +0100, Bert Verhees wrote: I am now studying OpenEhr for a new project. ... Which documents should I read (first) to understand the way the thing works (technical) This won't help with the details of a specific implementation but it's stuff you need to know.

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-13 Thread Bert Verhees
Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 16:13, schreef Tim Cook: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 10:07 +0100, Bert Verhees wrote: I am now studying OpenEhr for a new project. ... Which documents should I read (first) to understand the way the thing works (technical) This won't help with the details of a

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-13 Thread Bert Verhees
While reading the docs, I stumble on the acronym ITSs. It may not be that important, but I want to know, what does it mean, I searched on www.acronyms.ch and found: Incompatible Time-sharing System Can someone tell me what it really means, thank you regards Bert Verhees

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-13 Thread Gerard Freriks
Bert, ITS = Implementable Technology Specification. It is an HL7 specific term. It is the process that translates an hierargical message specification of a domain information model into: Edifact, HL7v2, XML (HL7v3), or Java formats. Gerard -- private -- Gerard Freriks, arts

difficulties starting an implementation

2006-01-13 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 23:07 +0200, Bert Verhees wrote: Please correct me if I am wrong, Please take it as a request for information, or if I am wrong and need to be corrected, as a discussion. If you go here:

difficulties starting an implementation

2005-09-22 Thread Bert Verhees
Please correct me if I am wrong, Please take it as a request for information, or if I am wrong and need to be corrected, as a discussion. I will do a few statements about what I have seen around the openehr-website - The folder in the RC 1 for ITS is a bit empty. No database-definitions, no