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from the International/Europe dept. The European Comission has published a report (PDF) entitled: ICT standards in the health sector: current situation and prospects. The report discusses Open Source as well as OpenEHR and difficulties of HL7: '...the RIM documentation is described as being “disastrously unclear”, poorly integrated with HL7 v3.0 documentation, and inconsistent. Under these circumstances, it may be difficult for HL7 v3.0 to establish a large user base. Currently HL7 v3.0 is still in the early adoption phase. Without a large user base, this standard is rendered ineffective – for the same reason that telephones can not be effective unless there are multiple users. HL7 already has a well established user base for their 2.x messaging standards in many countries of the world. However, since HL7 v3.0 is not compatible with v2.x, this user group must be re-established. Convergence with Europe’s CEN/TC 251 standardisation work is under way, which may help HL7 in this respect...' Digg this article < | >
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