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Social Media for Market Research 27 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
I'm not often called on to do market research, but when it falls into my area of expertise, I'm all over it. Back when I first entered the technology field more than two decades ago, it meant being aw...
IHE USA's Registration Kick-off Webinar | August 27, 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
In my inbox this afternoon ... Prepare Your Team for Health IT's Largest Interoperability Testing Event: The IHE North American Connectathon 2014 Gain a Sneak Peak of the Connectathon testing floor....
Information Modeling vs. Implementation Representations 22 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm
I was thinking last night about how HL7 modeling works going back to the RIM, and how the methodology provides a lot of knowledge relevant to the information model, but that knowledge hardly changes i...
Funded vs. Unfunded Standards Development 21 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
I've noticed a trend of late. A significant number of standards efforts are being pushed forwards by funded projects, instead of through unfunded initiatives. I'd call them "volunteer-led" initiativ...
What is a standard made of? 20 Aug 2013 | 07:38 am
Everyone knows what a standard is, right? It's got a schema, and some XML and some UML diagrams. Somewhere there are references to some fundamental pieces, and there's a set of services that are bei...
Evaluating Standards 16 Aug 2013 | 10:32 pm
I've been involved in several national and international efforts where at some point, a standards selection needs to be made. This happens in IHE, has occurred in the past in HITSP, and frequently oc...
A Low Res HITECH Destination 15 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
Here it is. What is it? Why, it's where you can send me my data Doc. Crafted with QR Pixel
What do you call that? 15 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
You know, that thing that has the same name as itself because it can be composed of smaller versions of itself? Like an order, which can have sub-orders, or a section which can have subsections. Exc...
What's the Rush? 14 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
I got into a debate... no, not really, call it a fight with one of the SD co-chairs today over our rush to get CCDA Release 2.0 out the door. I've been asking why we are trying so hard to get it out,...
What are Procedures really? 12 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
As always when you try to standardize things, there are just some things that refuse to fit into any well defined or shaped bucket. My case in point today is the concept of "Procedure". I made the h...
