IT news online reports about the collaboration between the OMG (Object Management Group) and HL7 (Health Level Seven International) in order to develop new standards for the healthcare industry.

As Richard Soley (chairman of the OMG) summarizes:
"The year in review of 2009 makes it clear that the collaboration between HL7 and OMG just gets better and better. HL7 has world-leading domain expertise in the medical space, while OMG has the finest infrastructure for modeling in many vertical markets. Working together we get the requirements right, and can define services that are broadly supported and interoperable across many tools and
products,... this also benefits the patient by helping healthcare organizations to provide higher-quality, lower-cost healthcare through standards." . Don't forget to check ITOnlineNews for the full story.

Without any doubt, healthcare is an important domain in which our MDE techniques could (and should) be applied

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