Keith Boone put up on his blog an informative piece on how to get and use OIDs. If you are in need of an unique object identifier, either for healthcare or otherwise, you should probably head over and take a…
Category: Web Services
[singlepic id=2 w=320 h=240 float=right] This week was my first as SOA Working Group co-chair, and interesting it was: hData was confirmed to be published as a DSTU with the reconciliation package posted and the specification out. This really wraps up the…
One of the big takeaways for me from this January HL7 meeting is a much better realization how the organization sees clinical documents and messages, and how they relate to distributed services. What I did not realize was how the…
Finalizing the recent series of events, the hData specs have achieved a major milestone: the HL7 hData Record Format was approved to be published as a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU), completing the HL7 project setup to achieve this…
hData has had two quite successful weeks: Last week, the HL7 hData Record Format version 1 successfully passed DSTU (Draft Standard for Trial Use) ballot. This is a major step towards broad adoption of hData as an international standard. In…
The Kantara User Managed Access (UMA) work group just published a press release about the recent Internet Draft they published with the IETF. Since the beginning, hData has looked into the UMA model as a very attractive patient-centric discretionary access…
Long overdue, here is a paper I published last fall on use cases and integration templates for distributed service architectures. While this is not necessarily the most advanced set of use cases, it is intended to guide implementation of technologies…
The HL7 SOA Working Group has passed the hData Record Format (HRF) project scope statement as attached. This is a major milestone for hData, as the working group is committing itself to shepherd the HRF towards becoming a normative standard.…
I meant to put this up for some time now – here is a paper I wrote on classifying a couple of functional service chaining use cases and potential security integration templates. It is intentionally not very intense, but I…
Here is a couple of questions I’d love to put out – if you have the time, please let me know since I am genuinely curious: Who has implemented a successfully chained service, with some propagation of identity? If you…