April 2011 4
Non-linear Software Economics
If Karl Marx were alive today he would have a field day updating his theories on the crisis of capitalism to encompass the shifting morass that forms the economics of software. With the current recession there has been a lot of debate about the use of economic stimulus with Keynesian theory: how government can effectively […]
My Dad Mervyn Muir – A pioneer meta integration engineer
The question of meta programming and modeling in health-care is a hot issue with HL7 v3 and the Reference Information Model (RIM). When ever it comes up I think about my Dad’s TV remote. My dad Mervyn was the personification of think different long before Apple ever trademarked the term. He worked his entire career for the New […]
Version 2 HL7 in JSON is not the answer
Oh dear. I didn’t really expect the rise and fall of HL7 to go viral. Now it seems I’m about to go down in history as the guy who said HL7 should be done in JSON. Oops. I do not actually think re-encoding version 2 HL7 in JSON is a good idea. Oh technically it’s quite […]
The Rise and Fall of HL7
The title of this post might seem unusual from what is supposed to be an HL7 middleware vendor. But times are changing and that is not where I see our future. Standards do not exist in a vacuum. To be successful standards must address market needs and solve real problems so people can make or save money. Writing […]
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