Health Archetextures

I'm pleased to be attending EHI Live on October 31 to speak briefly about the importance of open platforms, OpenEHR, FHIR and the Apperta Foundation's 5 Nations Clinical Modelling Sub-group where I represent NWIS alongside Dr Mark Wardle. The group are colloquially called the 5NCKM...not the catchiest moniker but in essence we are there to see if there is something tangible that can be done from the perspective of all home nations and Ireland ...

Although these videos have done the rounds, I'd recommend anyone who has not perused the Interopen InterOp Summit YouTube channel to spend some time watching their content. In particular there's an excellent video of Ian McNicoll's talk on OpenEHR and David Hay giving his opinion on "Why you WANT to be on FHIR". 52 minutes and 13 seconds of pure interoperability enlightenment... What is clinical information modelling by Ian M...

Following the recent OpenEHR event held at Ziferblat Media City in Manchester by Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, the debate on OpenEHR seemed to heat up quite considerably. It led to an interesting bit of tit-for-tat trolling discussion on Digital Health (which I of course took part in) with the announcement that Plymouth would be rolling out the Marand Open-Ep solution. The knives seemed to be out for OpenEHR for unclear reasons, but on t...

Or "Adventures in Archetyping"... No, not the 80's tale of high jinx and poor child managment starring a too young Vincent D'Onofrio. But the very real experience where you go two steps forward and one step back for a period of time, but refuse to give in. This was a bit of fun. Sort of like pulling teeth fun, but we got there in the end. I learned a lot about Azure in the process, and also that they have some helpful tech support s...