tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733074358901582680.post6174507010159779374..comments2024-03-23T05:28:35.472-04:00Comments on Healthcare Standards: On CodesKeith W. Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16883038460949909300noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733074358901582680.post-56250799252286703762014-01-01T13:18:07.003-05:002014-01-01T13:18:07.003-05:00So, what is going on here? Are some people just wr...So, what is going on here? Are some people just writing markup and strings to a stream, and complaining about the necessity of properly escaping the content of the strings? Haven't they learned to use one of the excellent general-purpose XML libraries available, let alone HL7-specific tooling?<br /><br />This reminds me of discussions a few years ago between Tim Berners-Lee and people at Google, notably Peter Norvig concerning the difficulties in realizing the Semantic Web. The Google partisans reminded Berners-Lee that they deal on a daily basis with webmasters that don't know how—or can't be bothered—to configure a web server properly.<br /><br />And then there's Cory Doctorow's famous essay <a href="http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm" rel="nofollow"><strong>Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia</strong></a>. Whether or not you completely buy into his cynicism (or simple realism) about the difficulties, the psycho-socio-economic facts of the matter are impossible to ignore.<br /><br />Of course, as a societal phenomenon this is not so different than problems that have plagued the practice of medicine and public health since they began, both internally (e.g., precautions against infection in obstetrics and surgery) and externally (e.g., inadequacies of public sanitation, avoidable health risks in the workplace, air and water pollution).Chris W.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733074358901582680.post-46878461511884644842013-12-31T11:47:21.799-05:002013-12-31T11:47:21.799-05:00Use a tool, and when enough people use that tool, ...Use a tool, and when enough people use that tool, the tool will improve. Something I have noticed in passing is that tooling and standards develop in parallel, and there is a time lag between SDO work, Recommended status and tooling support, which leads to misalignment between XML tooling and HL7 specific tooling, for instance. I'm not sure this will get better or worse with JSON added to the mix.<br /><br />This is not just misalignment between XML and HL7 v3 tooling; for instance XSLT 3.0, XPath 3.0 and XSD 1.1 have arrived now, but we will continue to use whatever is supported in the browser or by default in our adaptation layer or XML editors, which is short-sighted.P. M. Hollotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01542635131280325135noreply@blogger.com