openEHR-technical Digest, Vol 32, Issue 62

I agree Bert,

OpenEHR is not a standards developing organization. It creates specifications.
These are found to be useful by some.
But are sometimes in conflict with standards....

Vriendelijke groet,

Dr. William Goossen

Directeur Results 4 Care BV
+31654614458

I agree Bert,

OpenEHR is not a standards developing organization. It creates specifications.
These are found to be useful by some.
But are sometimes in conflict with standards....

Standards often come as an initiative from a non-standard developing organization.
Standards often conflict with other standards.
This gives choice, do you like centimeter or inch, do you use Whitworth or metric?
You can't have both.

But having a standard guarantees that if you buy a screw, it will fit on a bolt which you bought somewhere else.
There are external companies which make money on testing conformance.
But there must be stable conformance definitions to test against.

Bert