From: bill walton <bill.walton@...>
Date: 2007-03-19T22:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-HL7 0.1.23

On Mar 18, 2:01 pm, Mark Guzman <segfa...@hasno.info> wrote:
> I've finally wrapped up some tasks and released Ruby-HL7. This is the
> first public release.

Nice work, Mark.  I've been working on a Rails app that constructs
CCRs.  Now that the harmonization work is complete, I am planning to
support CCDs in an upcoming release.  That means I'm interested in
your v3 plans.  Be glad to help if you're interested.

For those that aren't familiar with the healthcare space, there is
some very interesting work going on there - work for which Ruby is
very well suited, IMO.  A lot of the Bioinformatics folks, for
example, have been using Perl for its pattern-matching capabilities
for quite some time.  I'm of the opinion that Ruby, especially paired
with Rails, has a very good chance at becoming the language / platform
of choice in healthcare IT in the near future.

Best regards,
Bill