Monthly Archives: September 2017

Last time, I explained why the Standard Health Record (SHR) is based on data elements. Primarily, clinicians think in terms of data elements, and there are many preexisting libraries of data elements that we can use. Data elements are reusable … Continue reading →

“Imagine you are trying to build a house, but you have bricks of varying sizes and materials to build the foundation– this is analogous to the situation that occurs when we don’t have common data elements.”  —  Julia Skapik of … Continue reading →

Over the past year, MITRE has been working on a domain specific language (DSL) for defining logical healthcare data models and producing FHIR profiles. By design, it is a very simple and compact method of describing a logical data model … Continue reading →