Discussion Form

Dec 7, 2011

There’s been some discussion lately that there’s no real discussion forum for healthcare interoperability here in Australi. A couple of people suggested that my blog is the default place as it is - but a blog is not a good place for a community forum. We tried to have a technical discussion (all right, argument) on the HL7 Australia mailing list, but that wasn’t popular on the list - it’s a lot of years since we used it like that. Hence, that fell through.

So I’e set up a forum here on the site. The URL is http://www.healthintersections.com.au/forum and any one can post on the forum.  Because of the prevalence of spam and bots etc, you have to register to post, and I moderate registration.

I’m not sure how the forum’s going to go - it’s kind of a trial thing. I suspect that it’s going to be a problem, because most employers and jurisdictions won’t allow their employees to “make public statements on behalf of the organisation” (foolish, but common). One possible solution to this is to close the forum so that only registered users can see the contents; this has obvious advantages and disadvantages.

I’m open to suggestions about how the forum could/should be run.