Converge or collide? Making sense of a plethora of open data standards in healthcare: an editorial
- Guy Tsafnat; Rachel Dunscombe; Davera Gabriel; Grahame Grieve; Christian Reich
This editorial is an absolutely brilliant counter-point to Enrico’s article - thanks for sharing it, Derek!
The authors have a significant skin and perspective in this area, and are well worth listening to. The key points I’ve taken from it:
Key Point 1: 3 domains with 3 solutions
There are three main domains in digital health that we need standards for, and there is an exemplar ‘standard’ for each. They also happen to play nicely with one another:
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Data exchange
- addressed by FHIR (we all enthusiastically agree on that here in NZ)
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Clinical care & administration
- the domain of openEHR (we kind of abandoned this here in NZ a decade ago)
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Longitudinal analysis
- suited to OMOP (are we using this in NZ at all?)
Key Point 2: online community is key
They are all three backed by active volunteer online communities (like this one), which has led them to iteratively improve over a significant timeframe.
As an online community enthusiast, this is of particular interest to me - and deeply inspiring!
Here is the article in full for ease of reading:
Full Article as a PDF
jmir-2024-1-e55779.pdf (109.6 KB)