Why did HL7 Version 3 fail?
Published by John Meredith on September 17th, 2017
With the adoption of HL7 FHIR taking baby steps across the NHS, it is worth pondering why the new standard exists in the first place.
Successful interoperability can be defined as knowing what information is to be sent and received by two systems, when the transaction occurred and why the information was exchanged in the first place. This 'what', 'when' and 'why' represents a complete end to end package; defined a...