I'm not saying that these (multiple workshops) are bad ideas. But here
is the reality.
The next MedInfo is three years away. People have heard about openEHR
for more than a decade. They want to see it work.
I see us right now having trouble focusing on an interoperability
demonstration.
With (probably) more than 1000 members in the openEHR community and a
large percentage of them healthcare providers. I want to ask you to
support Tony Shannon and simply spend one hour writing down on the wiki
(basically what you do everyday) a path for these two (or some other two
use cases. How difficult can that be? You experience it every working
day.
Then and ONLY THEN can the informaticians, analysts and developers
select the archetypes and develop a plan for the demonstration.
Otherwise we spend more time and money showing slides and telling people
what we can do without actually proving it......kind of sounds like
another crowd that I personally chose not to be associated with.
I have not had time to follow the details in this thread, but I endorse Tim’s view on this - put some working software together. There are now many organisations with running openEHR solutions / systems of one kind or another. It is just a question of agreeing some data to share according to one or more scenarios. I don’t believe it will be difficult to do this in time for the conference.
Hello!
Having been through the "Workshop with live software showcases"
organisation at this year's IHE Connectathon in Vienna let me share some
of my experiences as an organiser:
- It adds a lot of spice to the presentations if you can actually show
off live what you are talking about. "Powerpoint fatigue" much reduced.
Credibility suddenly given. Audience wakes up asks questions and gets
involved.
- It adds a lot of complexity to the organisation and to those
presenting. You need rehearsals weeks before the event and / or a very
confident and proven group of people / companies so that you can rely on
it happening without crashes. You do not want "Oh I just need to set the
IP address right here" in the middle of a presentation
- Consider the infrastructure and the number of people you need! You
will need routers, live broadband internet, multiple screen projection,
... we had to truck in tons (!) of equipment. There were about 6 highly
battle proven software development veterans on the stage and it took a
lot of time for them to get organised and prepare the event.
