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A discussion about Archetype Query Language semantics | Musings of a confused technology addict.

15-02-2018

This is a copy/paste of a few responses I sent to a discussion in the openEHR lists. I’m copying them here because images in my responses and responses themselves are not properly archived anywhere yet. If you want more: I wrote a PhD thesis on this stuff, so if you want a deeper discussion of …


openEHR REST API 0.9.0 out for comment | Woland's cat

31-01-2018

The REST API Team (Bostjan Lah, Erik Sundvall, Sebastian Iancu, Heath Frankel, Pablo Pazos, and others on the openEHR SEC and elsewhere) have made a 0.9.0 Release of the openEHR ITS (Implementation Technology Specifications) component, in order to make a pre-1.0.0 release …


The open e-health platform, coming to an economy near you | Woland's cat

18-11-2017

I’ve been silent for a while, but luckily an excellent paper on one of my favourite topics – the open platform for e-health has appeared. It comes from the Apperta Foundation, and is called “Defining an Open Platform”; you can get …


Journey to Interoperability – Part II | Archetypical

27-04-2016

Read Part I The journey continues… One of the moderately successful incremental innovations that has given us some reprieve has been the development of standardised messages or documents to exchange selected, critical data – the ‘River of Limited Exchange’. There …


Journey to interoperability II | Blog - Atomica Informatics

27-04-2016

Standardising the 'little data' is just common sense. We need it to achieve meaningful health information interoperability beyond simple messages and documents.


Journey to Interoperability – Part I | Archetypical

26-04-2016

We are on a journey, a transition from health records being recorded on paper to a new paradigm of electronic health records (EHRs) and data interoperability. We’ve all grown up in an era of paper records – the inability to …


Journey to interoperability I | Blog - Atomica Informatics

26-04-2016

Despite some wins, the transition to EHRs has generally been much slower than we anticipated, much harder than we imagined, and it is not hard to argue that interoperability of granular health data remains frustratingly elusive.


“Smart data, smarter healthcare” | Archetypical

24-04-2016

Last week Hugh Leslie & I spent time in Shanghai and Huangzhou at the invitation of Professor Xudong Lu and Professor Huilong Duan. It was a privilege to be invited and particpate in the very first openEHR meetings to be …


"Smart data, smarter healthcare" | Blog - Atomica Informatics

24-04-2016

I attended the inaugural openEHR meetings in China last week - this is how I introduced openEHR…


Adverse reaction risk: the provenance | Archetypical

06-03-2016

This week I documented the provenance of our Adverse Reaction Risk archetype – it has been a long & memorable journey from the first iteration in 2006 through to its publication in the international openEHR CKM last November 2015. In the beginning was Sam …