HL7 RIM: an Incoherent Standard

Overview

Journal Stud Health Technol Inform

Publisher IOS Press

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Biotechnology
Health Services
Medical Informatics

Date 2006 Nov 17

PMID 17108516

Citations 14

Authors

Barry Smith

Werner Ceusters

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Abstract

The Health Level 7 Reference Information Model (HL7 RIM) is lauded by its authors as 'the foundation of healthcare interoperability'. Yet even after some 10 years of development work, the RIM is still subject to a variety of logical and ontological flaws, which has placed severe obstacles in the way of those who are called upon to develop implementations. We offer evidence that these obstacles are insurmountable and that the time has come to abandon an unworkable paradigm.

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