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[brd at iimetro.com.au]

Yes I was aware of HL7, which predates XML, but which now (like a lot of
standards) embraces XML.

Talking about health information:

<quote>
Health project in disarray
Karen Dearne
SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
The Australian
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20393280%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

AUSTRALIA's health IT strategy is in disarray, with the peak HealthConnect
governance and advisory bodies caught up in another round of deckchair
rearrangement.

The Australian Health Information Council, which is supposed to be responsible
for introducing the $128 million nationwide e-health record program, has been
in abeyance since its former chair, Professor Andrew Coats, resigned earlier
this year.

The council and the National Health Information Group, which provides
independent advice to Australia's health ministers, have apparently 
fallen foul
of a review and their committees have been disbanded.

...
</quote>

It is no coincidence that Dr Robert Wooding, who was the head of the 
Information
and Communications Division in the Department of Health and Ageing is now no
longer at DHA.

It seems that Tony Abbott saw no role for DHA in e-Health and Health 
Information
Management. I was told that Dr Wooding's position was made redundant 
and he left
with a package.

And if you look at the Information and Strategy Group of the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare, out of the six positions, three are acting,
including the head of the group.

There may be international standards in Health, but it would seem we are not
doing very much in the way of utilising them.

Quoting Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com>:

> I've just caught up on this thread, and wanted to mention another open
> standard data model that might be of interest.
>
> The health sector has the HL7 standard (for "health level 7", I believe) for
> storing and interchanging health-related data. It's XML-based and covers
> everything from "This is the raw high-resolution of Mr Smith's MRI scan" to
> "Ms Jones has just cancelled her 2.15pm appointment for physiotherapy."
>
> It's used every time a pathology lab reports your blood test results back to
> your doctor, magically appearing in your personal file on his or her screen.
>
> Stil


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