In the chaotic universe of health informatics standards it is quite unusual for different standards developing organisations to talk to each other - which usually results in overlapping and non-compatible specifications. Following the recent trends in adoption of both openEHR for clinical modelling and using CDA and HL7 messaging by major national programmes we had chosen to employ this approach during writing of the Reference Architecture for Interoperability. Following on that I'm happy to…

One big challenge in health informatics is to obtain structured and coded data in clinical practice and then being able to make different systems understand their meaning - aka the 'semantic interoperability'. Biomedical terminology, like SNOMED, is important; however having common 'content models' (such as how to represent blood pressure measurement or APGAR score) is essential. These are, in engineering terms, are computable information models. It is really these…

Hi All, as a co-author of this stack of technical documents now in the process of becoming HISO standards, it is my pleasure to share the ews with you. Further details as follows:

The purpose of this email is to inform you that the draft Heath Information Exchange Architecture Building Blocks Specifications are now open for…

This is a very important milestone for getting the medications right at the national scale. Based on the international terminology standard SNOMED CT the NZULM offers defining all medicines registered and marketed in New Zealand in a consistent and non-ambiguous way. Essential for medicines reconciliation and improved patient safety.

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