Re: [Gnumed-devel] International Standards

[Daniel Minahim]

Hi,

Em Seg 19 Dez 2005 12:41, Karsten Hilbert escreveu:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:20:01AM -0200, Daniel Minahim wrote:
> > 1) Of course we've got to keep in mind the local requirements (eg. German
> > EMR file, maybe the brazilian XML DTD for health records). But those
> > should be peripheral projects.
>
> That's why I have solicited input from as many on-list as possible.
>
> > 2) Although an international standard for EMR isn't readily available
>
> OpenEHR comes closest. Note that there is a difference
> between a health messaging standard and a health data
> storage standard.

Sounds good, I'll take a look. Is it a IMIA related project?

>
> > We can come up with one top level standard
>
> No, we can't (or rather shouldn't). (Well, anyone can embark
> on that journey but that's not the journey GNUmed is
> intended to take as far as I am concerned as it's a sure way
> of wrecking GNUmeds true objectives.)  Remember, we are
> masons building a home. (Actually we are the people who want
> to *live* in that home, sad enough we have to build it
> ourselves.) We sure as hell don't want to invent brick and
> mortar.
>
> We can, however, shop around a bit for who's got the best
> build-your-home kit and perhaps combine a few things here
> and there.

Thanks for your realism Karten :)

>
> > We have a chance of creating a 'de facto' standard or
> > working with IMIA or WHO.
>
> Down that road lies peril only.
>
> > The later should be interested in standard that came from
> > a international cooperation group.
>
> "should" is the key word here.
>
> Karsten

To dare or not to dare...

Daniel