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Healthcare Informatics is a ghetto (to paraphrase Zed Shaw). No one who cares enough about healthcare cares enough to learn how to develop decent applications a
by bena 16y ago
Healthcare Informatics is a ghetto (to paraphrase Zed Shaw). No one who cares enough about healthcare cares enough to learn how to develop decent applications and no one who knows how to develop decent applications cares enough about healthcare.
So what you get is a bunch of people who would rather be doing something else but for some reason cannot. Strictly middle to low tier developers. Anyone who is decent gets out of the industry quick due to the huge amount of inertia the established companies have.
Someone mentioned HL7 CDA being an XML format. It is now. HL7v3 was published in 2005. HL7v2 was standard before that and if you have to deal with equipment or software made before 2006-2007, you will need to dive into the fun that is HL7v2.
- nradov 16y agoJust to be clear, it was the CDA R2 portion of the HL7 V3 standard that was published in 2005. Other parts of HL7 V3 were published earlier, and some parts are still not done yet. There is no HL7 V2 version of CDA. Even older versions of HL7 V2, such as V2.3 published in 1997, specified a minimum supported length for individual observations of 64K (OBX-5 field). So we can't blame HL7 for this particular problem. Of course many vendors have defective HL7 interfaces. I can't speak for other vendors, but at my company we have been able to attract top tier developers (and are hiring more).