[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt] Re: SBVR component proposal- interest in hea

["Dave Carlson" <dcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Duane Leet" <dgleet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>I want to make sure I understand the background of the participants with 
>respect to healthcare IT

This SBVR project will not include any functionality that is specific to 
healthcare.  However, look at the new Open Health Tools (OHT) organization, 
see www.openhealthtools.org   I will be at the next OHT board meeting in 
mid-April and will ask about RHIO involvement.  OHT is duplicating the 
governance structure of Eclipse (in fact, the Eclipse Foundation, OMG, and 
HL7 are all charter members of OHT).  There is no software available yet, 
but several projects are getting started.  Any work that I do which builds 
on this SBVR project (and UML2) to add healthcare-specific functionality 
will probably be contributed to OHT.

Watch for discussion forums starting at OHT, hopefully within a month or so.

> information exchange xml standard is HL7 (http://www.hl7.org). There's a 
> metamodel (RIT) and a specific common implementation throughout the 
> industry which is NOT XML, but rather value/delimiter text based.

I have been deeply involved in UML modeling with HL7 for the past 18 months. 
But only for the newer v3 standards, and they do use XML.  There are some 
adopters for parts of this, mostly CDA and CCD specifications, including 
clinical data interoperability between VA and DoD.  Also applications in 
Canada and the U.K.  Tools that I have been developing that use UML for HL7 
modeling will be contributed to OHT within the next few months.  Thougthts 
about how/where to use SBVR are still in the research stages.