Health Archetextures

I spent an enlightening day at the Clinicans on FHIR event at the King's Fund on November 21. It was good to get a pure FHIR perspective with a group of people who were there to learn about the technology. Although one particularly savvy chap did ask the question about the FHIR hype cycle, the presenter, David Hay admittedly avoided giving a detailed answer. But did add that FHIR advocates feel a responsibility to to dampen down some of t...

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 ...

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...

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...