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Another problem is that doctors and health in General is highly specialized. So a doctor needs a set of options while the next needs another, etc. So it's kind
by atmosx 12y ago
Another problem is that doctors and health in General is highly specialized. So a doctor needs a set of options while the next needs another, etc.
So it's kind of hard to fit everything in one basket. There is HL7 that should a sort of golden standard but many programmers on the field totally ignore it.
- angersock 12y agoI hate HL7 with a passion. As for docs, the main problem is that they've spent the last century or two training snowflake workflows and vocabularies. :(
- dawson 12y agoFHIR is a step in the right direction http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/ http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/
- lucidrains 12y agoYes! I am also quite excited for FHIR!
- angersock 12y agoUrk. I'm not impressed--it's already shaping up to be super-enterprisey and architecture-astronauty, and supporting binary stuff means folks will keep smuggling in HL7 v2.
- nradov 12y agoHL7 isn't a single standard; it's a standards body which publishes many different standards each with multiple versions. And it's not really practical to fully implement them all. So if you want to interoperate with an external system first you have to find out which flavors of HL7 they support and then build around that. Some people criticize HL7 for being overly complex. And there is some truth to that due to legacy issues. But the reality is that healthcare is tremendously complex and so that drives a certain level of unavoidable complexity in the standards.