on Semantics, Computing, and Health IT
The AI singularity The LLM (Large Language Model) AI revolution has forced the hand of the IT industry on the question of semantics in data, because now meaning is now consumed by machines as well as humans. The industry has … Continue reading → The post Are we in a Semantic Emergency? appeared first on Woland's Cat .
I’ve been working for the last 9 months on a new project, which I would summarise as: next generation information modelling for the age of AI. I’ve called it SPLASH, which stands for Standard Pattern Library for Advanced Science and … Continue reading → The post Looking to the future: SPLASH appeared first on Woland's Cat .
Just remember folks, always, always do your requirements capture before buying a solution. I built a mandate compliance system in the 1990s for AMP, Australia’s largest insurer and pension fund manager. I proposed 6 weeks of requirements gathering. They looked … Continue reading → The post Do Requirements or Die… appeared first on Woland's Cat .
People often ask me why did we develop Task Planning in openEHR (NB: if the status is showing as ‘Retired’, this is an error in the specifications website), doesn’t BPMN do everything needed? BPMN is in ubiquitous use in numerous … Continue reading → The post openEHR Task Planning v BPMN appeared first on Woland's Cat .
Today, pianists from every country in the world can read and play Bach. Without dropping a note or missing a beat. Why is it so hard in the information-rich technical domains? The history of ‘solving interoperability’ has generally been via … Continue reading → The post If musicians can solve interoperability, why can’t we? appeared first on Woland's Cat .
[Image: from CatSalut website] A slide on the future of HIT, from the openEHR conference hosted by the Catalan Health System (CatSalut), 06 June 2023, Barcelona. WHAT HOW RESULT Signs of success: The post The future of healthcare IT appeared first on Woland's Cat .
openEHR was officially created on 13 March 2003, 20 years ago today. Prof David Ingram thought of the name, and he and a small band of optimists – Dr Sam Heard, Dr Dipak Kalra, David Lloyd and myself – launched … Continue reading → The post openEHR turns 20 today appeared first on Woland's Cat .
One of the basic elements of design common to all workflow languages, including YAWL and BPMN, is the inclusion of logical expressions on decision nodes. This seems harmless, and we followed it in openEHR’s Task Planning specifications. However, it is … Continue reading → The post Why using expressions in workflow is wrong appeared first on Woland's Cat .
Colleagues in e-health often say to me: why don’t you make openEHR easier to map to <insert popular interop standard> (used to be HL7v3, then HL7 CDA, now, HL7 FHIR… DSTU2/3/4/5?). To which I usually reply: if you are implying … Continue reading → The post A Lingua Franca for e-health takes shape with GraphiteHealth appeared first on Woland's Cat .
Following on from various posts in the past, including my 2014 post What is an open platform?, I thought it might be time to post a succinct (as possible) definition of the platform idea, for e-health. As stated in that … Continue reading → The post The Health IT Platform – a definition appeared first on Woland's Cat .