GEHR philosophical background info

2003-04-28 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Sam, BW: This is a really interesting problem space to me. I've been studying HIPAA (the Health care Information Portability and Accountability Act) and have become fascinated with the discussion over how best to balance the needs of the various parties involved in the provision

GEHR philosophical background info

2003-04-28 Thread Bill Walton
different legal issues about ownership that would also have implications for access. Any thoughts? Bill Walton bill.walton at jstats.com 04/28/03 12:32PM Hi Sam, BW: This is a really interesting problem space to me. I've been studying HIPAA (the Health care Information Portability

openEHR security

2003-04-28 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale wrote: /snip/ So. What do we know? - role-based access control is required. To make it work properly in a shared care community context (e.g. a hospital, 50 GPs, aged care homes, nursing care, social workers etc etc) then the roles need to be defined congruently. I

GEHR philosophical background info

2003-04-28 Thread Bill Walton
) for blocking access to the University's records My point is that until the issue of ownership is clearly spelled out, questions of access are going to be left to the discretion of judges and attorneys! Paul Juarez Bill Walton bill.walton at jstats.com 04/28/03 01:32PM Hi

VistA knowledge / comments

2003-04-23 Thread Bill Walton
Is anyone here familiar enough with the open source VistA system here in the U.S. to offer any comments about it in general and specifically about it's storage subsystem? There's info on VistA at http://www.va.gov/vista_monograph/ Thanks, Bill -- next part -- An HTML

HISTORY DATA SET IN EPR

2003-08-11 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Christopher, Christopher Feahr wrote: For this reason, the Institute of Medicine content recommendations (reflected in the present version 1.0 of the HL7 EHR ballot) includes 4 main care settings: in-patient, out-patient, nursing home, and personal health record. The last is the

What HIPAA means to you - a brief description

2003-08-27 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Thomas, Thomas Clark wrote: /snip/ It was enacted to keep the payers happy and not the Patients. I've studied both the HIPAA regs and the Preambles and come away with a completely different impression. It's probably OT for the list but I'd be interested in going offline to get your

Access controls and Audit trails (was Re: openEHR security)

2003-05-04 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale wrote: Bill Walton wrote: BW: Further, it looks like the EHR access history should include reads as well as writes. That way, the trail would lead to the providers that have, with permission, made copies of the EHR within their own systems. SH: True

Patient Privacy: Impact of Outsourcing

2003-05-17 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Tom, I'm not sure I'd call this a dead horse. The HIPAA Security Rule talks a bit about the need for sanctions as a component of achieving compliance at 68 FR 8347 (first column). The sanction policy is a required implementation specification because -- (1) the statute requires covered

Modelling Episodes in openEHR

2004-12-04 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale wrote: Someone could come along later in the same institution, and define a new kind of episode, and retrospectively create all the Folders for that kind of episode in certain EHRs. This also won't change any of the underlying data. Episode Folders could also be

Open source implementation?

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Walton
Sam Heard wrote on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:50 PM: Subject: RE: Open source implementation? Vincenzo The workplan in Australia has been delayed due to hefty negotiations and the extension of a trial to involve 3 hospitals and 100 general practices. The contract still involves Java

Latest ADL workAtlanta bench and Clinical Archetype Editor

2004-10-06 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale wrote: Bill Walton wrote: /snip/ You are right, and actually, having someone think about test plans and construct test cases / procedures would be a very useful thing. Excellent. Count me in. We would need to dicuss how to do this exactly Development

Latest ADL workAtlanta bench and Clinical Archetype Editor

2004-10-11 Thread Bill Walton
Peter, Elkin, Peter L., M.D. wrote: Also, I would recommend taking a look at the ebXML registry which is a federated Open Source registry which is currently available. Also, Sun is implementing OWL support within the registry (which may be handy for users interested in direct reasoning

Age

2005-01-30 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale: Bill Walton wrote: It seems to me, although I'm not a physician, that there are, or we might learn that, there are medical problems that crop up later in life that are related to whether or not a person was born full-term or not. If so, or it it's a possibility

Fwd: Msg #1 - Software Archetypes - single vs double systems

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Walton
Software Archetypes - single vs double systemsGreetings, The posting below showed up on the hardhats list this morning. I responded (after a brief, confirmatory exchange with Thomas) with a brief, high-level explanation of what archetypes bring to the party. That triggered a couple of

Fwd: Msg#2 - Software Archetypes - single vs double systems

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Walton
- Original Message - From: Gregory Woodhouse To: hardhats-members at lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 2006-04-10 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Software Archetypes - single vs double systems On Apr 9, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Lorie Obal wrote: Can anyone clarify/comment on the

Fwd: Msg#3 - Software Archetypes - single vs double systems

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Walton
Software Archetypes - single vs double systems - Original Message - From: Bill Walton To: hardhats-members at lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 2006-04-10 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Software Archetypes - single vs double systems Hi Lorie, Archetypes provide a capability that's

Fwd: Msg#4 - Software Archetypes - single vs double systems

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Walton
is that it is so often vague and intuitive in nature, making it rather hard to decipher. --- Bill Walton bill.walton at charter.net wrote: Software Archetypes - single vs double systemsHi Lorie, Archetypes provide a capability that's very familiar to programmers, but take it to the next

experience / opinions

2006-02-02 Thread Bill Walton
Does anyone have any experience with / opinions about the suitability of Ruby and Rails as implementation platforms for openEHR? Thanks, Bill -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

experience / opinions

2006-02-02 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Tim, Tim Cook wrote: I *do* think it makes sense to use existing, tried and tested frameworks/components as part of an infrastructure where possible. Do you include Ruby/Rails in your list of components/frameworks that make sense to use? Best regards, Bill

Lifestyle: substance_use archetype

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Sam, Could you say more about the need for 'substance use' archetypes? I'm not sure I understand why it would be a good idea to record alcohol consumption differently from, for example, consumption of herbal teas. Or prescription drugs for that matter. I'm sure I'm missing something.

Lifestyle: substance_use archetype

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Karsten, Karsten Hilbert wrote: Recording substance use is more intended to record a *fact* about the lifestyle of an individual rather than an *intent to treat* as with prescription drugs. There's a fine line as always: herbal teas, OTC drugs etc may or may not have been intended to be

Lifestyle: substance_use archetype

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Walton
Gerard Freriks wrote: snip Irrespective of a regular drug, herbal tea, food additive, smog, self medicated, prescribed, or taken by an involuntary action one always want to record the same things. Isn't it? My sentiments, precisely. So why not a generic Archetypes: Observation: Substance