HL7 Watch

HL7 (Health Level 7) is a collection of standards and proposals for healthcare-specific data exchange between computer applications. Considerable efforts are being invested by governments and industry to use HL7 as part of national health IT projects. Many claims are made on behalf of HL7 by its advocates. The goal of this blog is to investigate the merits of these claims, and to provide some needed independent perspective on the HL7 project.

Friday, May 10, 2013

FHIR: Let's Make Things Difficult Again

More interesting material on Eliot Muir's Interfaceware blog, in a thread on the topic of FIHR integration . Here Eliot proposes a strat...

Sunday, April 21, 2013

For people outside of healthcare what HL7 does with your data seems quite crazy -- and it is!

Eliot Muir, responding to a comment to a recent post on his own Interfaceware blog, makes a number of interesting points on the difference ...

Friday, April 12, 2013

Why FHIR will burn CDA

An interesting post with this title from Eliot Muir a friend of this blog. (See, for example, " The Rise and Fall of the RIM " fr...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Implementing Obamacare? “Impossible endeavor”

By Michael Barone March 18, 2013 | 3:51 pm Will the government be able to implement Obamacare smoothly? An “impossible endeavor,” writes ...

Monday, March 04, 2013

Human Action in the Healthcare Domain

An essay by Barry Smith, Lowell Vizenor and Werner Ceusters on the current state of the RIM, entitled “Human Action in the Healthcar...

Friday, February 22, 2013

The Weight of the Baby After 5 Years

Fans of “ The Weight of the Baby ”, which is certainly the funniest of all postings to the HL7 Watch blog, may be interested to note that ...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

American Cardiology Society Makes Ontological Errors

See new post by Bill Hogan to The Ontology Blog here .

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

An Ontologist's Guide to HL7

A talk under this heading was presented as part of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology seminar series. Slides and a recording of th...

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

The RIM of Despond

Looking Back In the more than 7 years since HL7 Watch was founded in 2005, we have drawn attention to a number of deep flaws in the struc...

Thursday, October 11, 2012

CDISC Discovers "Concept Maps"

My attention was drawn to interesting developments on the CDISC front by the following, from Kerstin Forsberg of AstraZeneca: Checkout ...

Thursday, September 06, 2012

HL7 To Make Intellectual Property Available at No Cost

On Tuesday, HL7 International announced that, beginning in 2013, it will make most of its intellectual property, including standards, avail...

Friday, August 03, 2012

Re-fur-bish (verb): To bish, again, with fur

Rene Spronk, in his new proposal to " Renovate HL7 version 3 " recognizes that HL7 v3 has failed. As he points out, almost all i...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Death by HIPAA

From INFO/LAW http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2012/06/22/death-by-hipaa/ : Vioxx, the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug once pres...

Monday, March 12, 2012

HL7 RIM has done its job on HL7 V3. Now it’s time to undermine the V2 standard

I am noticing changes introduced in V2.7 of the HL7 standard – described by one Asian HL7 expert as ‘subtle, insidious and dangerous’ – whi...

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Barry Smith: Barry Smith is Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurology and Computer Science in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA). He is also a Research Scientist in the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, Director of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR), a principal scientist of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and a Coordinating Editor of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry.

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