It seems that there are very few people involved in health information standards that are able to discern the difference between a thing in the singular and things in the plural! Perhaps many people can discern the difference but just don’t realize  how difficult it is for computers to discern the difference. So often I […]

Well it is now several months since I established the Global HL7 Challenge and the deadline for the first part of the challenge has just passed with no respondents. I can only put this down to a global lack of capability to implement HL7 CDA based solutions beyond the simple HTML style of document rendering. […]

In my previous posting on this blog, I cited hospital discharge summaries as a potential barometer of broader e-health capability. I’m sure there are significant organisational and “change management” factors that have impeded the deployment  of information sharing typified by electronic discharge summaries. Many commentators dismiss technological obstacles as a minor distraction in some vast […]