Comments on: Monday Morning Update 9/3/07 http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/ Healthcare IT News and Opinion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: B2B-John http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/comment-page-1/#comment-175 B2B-John Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:00:47 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/#comment-175 HIMSS' virtual conference is not much different than the virtual conferences I have seen put together in other industry sectors. These conferences are really just a lead-gen activity for vendors who are ultimately the sponsors of such events. As part of sponsorship vendors get speaking/presentation slots, are encourage to bring customer stories, occasionally you'll haave an industry analyst or two thrown into the mix, etc. Having been on the vendor side of such activities, the ROI from a marketing/lead-gen perspective is rarely justifiable. But hey, that was in another industry sector, maybe HIT is more amendable to such virtual conferences, though 2,200 from that last event is nothing to write home about. HIMSS’ virtual conference is not much different than the virtual conferences I have seen put together in other industry sectors. These conferences are really just a lead-gen activity for vendors who are ultimately the sponsors of such events. As part of sponsorship vendors get speaking/presentation slots, are encourage to bring customer stories, occasionally you’ll haave an industry analyst or two thrown into the mix, etc.

Having been on the vendor side of such activities, the ROI from a marketing/lead-gen perspective is rarely justifiable. But hey, that was in another industry sector, maybe HIT is more amendable to such virtual conferences, though 2,200 from that last event is nothing to write home about.

]]> By: Heather Leslie http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Heather Leslie Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:22:52 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/#comment-174 Hi Chuck, openEHR is indeed a specification for semantic interoperability. It is not an application for use out of the box, but designed to work behind the scenes with existing clinical applications, enabling knowledge level exchange of clinical information rather than just document level sharing. The openEHR architecture is open source and the IP owned/managed by the openEHR Foundation - a collaboration between University College London and Australian company, Ocean Informatics. Lead architects are longtime clinician Dr Sam Heard (whose presentation you linked to) and software engineer Thomas Beale - see www.oceaninformatics.biz [Dr Clem McDonald is NOT a founder of the openEHR Foundation] As an example, recent work in the UK's NHS Connecting for Health project enabled detailed clinical modelling for Maternity and Emergency domains using openEHR archetypes - which are reusable clinical concept specifications. These archetypes were then aggregated to build up clinical templates eg for an Antenatal checkup or Labour assessment. The scope and details about the work is publicly available on http://www.ehr.chime.ucl.ac.uk/display/nhsmodels/Home. The resulting archetypes can be found on http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/TAGS/dev-uk-nhs/Lorenzo_3.5/pub/ContentRelease-1.0.1/archetypes/gen/html/index_en.html The resulting templates on http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/TAGS/dev-uk-nhs/Lorenzo_3.5/pub/ContentRelease-1.0.1/templates/gen/html/index.html Please let me know if you would like any more information Kind regards Dr Heather Leslie Director of Clinical Modeling Ocean Informatics Australia Hi Chuck,

openEHR is indeed a specification for semantic interoperability. It is not an application for use out of the box, but designed to work behind the scenes with existing clinical applications, enabling knowledge level exchange of clinical information rather than just document level sharing.

The openEHR architecture is open source and the IP owned/managed by the openEHR Foundation – a collaboration between University College London and Australian company, Ocean Informatics. Lead architects are longtime clinician Dr Sam Heard (whose presentation you linked to) and software engineer Thomas Beale – see http://www.oceaninformatics.biz

[Dr Clem McDonald is NOT a founder of the openEHR Foundation]

As an example, recent work in the UK’s NHS Connecting for Health project enabled detailed clinical modelling for Maternity and Emergency domains using openEHR archetypes – which are reusable clinical concept specifications. These archetypes were then aggregated to build up clinical templates eg for an Antenatal checkup or Labour assessment. The scope and details about the work is publicly available on http://www.ehr.chime.ucl.ac.uk/display/nhsmodels/Home.

The resulting archetypes can be found on http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/TAGS/dev-uk-nhs/Lorenzo_3.5/pub/ContentRelease-1.0.1/archetypes/gen/html/index_en.html

The resulting templates on http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/TAGS/dev-uk-nhs/Lorenzo_3.5/pub/ContentRelease-1.0.1/templates/gen/html/index.html

Please let me know if you would like any more information

Kind regards

Dr Heather Leslie
Director of Clinical Modeling
Ocean Informatics
Australia

]]> By: Art_Vandelay http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Art_Vandelay Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:57:37 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2007/09/01/monday-morning-update-9307/#comment-173 Chuck - OpenEHR is more of a specification and interoperability standard than a full usable product out of the box. All of the users really appear to be informaticians, not mainstream vendors with front-line physicians and nurses as clients. Chuck – OpenEHR is more of a specification and interoperability standard than a full usable product out of the box. All of the users really appear to be informaticians, not mainstream vendors with front-line physicians and nurses as clients.

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