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Why NPfIT failed | Woland's cat
28-10-2018
Below is my list of reasons why I think NPfIT failed. NPfIT was the NHS National Programme for IT in health, starting in 2002, with Richard Grainger appointed as NHS IT director. A timeline is published here. NPfIT is generally …
Services Landscape for e-Health | Woland's cat
23-10-2018
Every so often I get bored of what I am doing and start trying to draw one of those ‘services roadmap’ kind of diagrams for e-Health. These pretty pictures appear in slide presentations, standards, whitepapers etc, but are not often …
FHIR v openEHR – concreta | Woland's cat
10-10-2018
Some readers may have read my previous post FHIR compared to openEHR. If not, I recommend you do, it is available in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese as well as English. Here I aim to clarify some of the concrete differences …
Chasing data patterns | Blog - Atomica Informatics
03-09-2018
Dear engineer colleagues, please try to understand that the domain we are modelling is not simple or clear cut. The reality is that every time we think we can identify a common pattern, almost immediately we find a use case that breaks it. We know this isn’t ideal, but it is our reality. That said, we have identified some useful patternish things and we will endeavour to document this better in the future.
Why the platform will replace today’s interoperability standards in healthcare | Woland's cat
21-07-2018
For decades, most of us working in health informatics and e-health have lived on the assumption that ‘interoperability’ is one of the main things we are trying to achieve, and that it is the most important because the lack of …
openEHR Basic Meta-Model (BMM) and syntax major upgrade | Woland's cat
16-07-2018
The openEHR Basic Meta-Model (BMM) that has been in use in some form for nearly 10 years now was recently upgraded to version 3.0.0 (from 2.x), with the persistence format (now called P_BMM) being backwards-compatibly upgraded to version 2.3. The …
Standards or toilet paper? A Linus Torvalds reality check | Woland's cat
22-06-2018
Linus Torvalds, rightly praised for his literary flair and subtlety, serves up a classic today, on the topic of standards and when to just forget about them.
Major German research project chooses openEHR | Woland's cat
20-06-2018
I just returned from Heidelberg, where another very successful ‘openEHR day’ was held, this time by the HiGHmed research consortium, with 100 attendees. HiGHmed is funded with 20m€ by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the …
The 3 C's of health data | Blog - Atomica Informatics
20-06-2018
Our current fragmented approach to health data design severely limits the potential impact offered by digital health. There is no reason to delay further... The intrinsic value of health data will only grow if it is coherent, coordinated and connected.
Will the tech giants ever succeed at e-Health? | Woland's cat
08-04-2018
Amazon, Apple, and Google are all having another go at e-Health. But we have been here before: remember Microsoft HealthVault? It’s still around, and still hasn’t taken off. Google Health went live in 2008, but was retired at end of …