Stream: social
Topic: common criticisms
René Spronk (Sep 03 2018 at 14:31):
A rhetoric technique which can be applied to many FHIR presentations and training courses: identify/describe the major critical assumptions or misconceptions that the attendees have, and show how these have been dealt with in FHIR. Which begs the question: what, in your mind, are those critical assumptions or misconceptions which newbies tend to have?
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 03 2018 at 16:03):
FHIR is only about REST. You can get all the benefits of FHIR just by converting your existing messaging interface. FHIR is still about point-to-point interfaces. I don't need to think about what the community is doing, only what's easiest for me.
Simone Heckmann (Sep 03 2018 at 17:15):
„My Resource validates, so it must be interoperable.“
Simone Heckmann (Sep 03 2018 at 17:18):
Wait no. That’s an uncritical assumption. I guess the critical counterpart is: „With too little constraints in the Core spec plus extensibility, anyone can do what they want with FHIR and will never be interoperable“. The lack of Governance behind Extensibility is a common criticism.
John Moehrke (Sep 03 2018 at 17:21):
both
Jean Duteau (Sep 03 2018 at 17:22):
I can just adopt FHIR with its reference implementations and I'll instantly be interoperable with anyone I want to share data with.
Kevin Mayfield (Sep 04 2018 at 06:46):
At a high level, people don't 'get' resource API pattern/RESTful and see FHIR as a replacement for HL7v2 messaging. So rip and replace rather than complimentary.
Michael van der Zel (Sep 04 2018 at 12:44):
FHIR = REST + JSON and I do REST + JSON, so what I do IS FHIR ;-)
John Silva (Sep 04 2018 at 14:01):
It's "just" an XML/JSON version of HL7 V3 ! (or just an XML/JSON data model)
Stefan Lang (Sep 04 2018 at 17:32):
"FHIR has just the 80%, so it will never be capable of fulfilling 100% of the requirements for my use case."
Mikael Rinnetmäki (Sep 04 2018 at 19:17):
"FHIR solves the most common 80%, so surely all my needs are already catered for. I can just start using what others have implemented."
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