HL7 Directory

With increased demand in HL7 and healthcare interoperability, many healthcare IT professionals are searching for information on HL7 and other healthcare standards. The purpose of this site is to provide a one-stop place to find HL7 information, healthcare integration insights, and healthcare standards resources. If you have suggestions, please feel free to contact us with ideas. We welcome your participation and recommendations.

Meaningful Use / HITECH Resources

Federal Advisory Committee Blog

Gathers opinions and comments on health IT adoption experiences and insights.

Health IT Buzz

Reports on progress with HITECH initiatives and encourages interaction with the health IT community. Sponsored by the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Information

Provides information on the status of ARRA and HITECH as regulations, funding, and other milestones. Information directly from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Meaningful Use Topic Category on HL7Standards.com

Provides current insights and links to articles on Meaningful Use developments, commentary, and actions.

Corepoint Health Integration Resources

HL7 Resources

An in depth review of the HL7 messaging standard and terminology for healthcare IT professionals. Popular topics covered are ADT, CDA, CCD, OBX, PID, and Z-segments and more.

HL7 & Healthcare Integration Blog

Healthcare IT Blog providing insights and approaches to working with healthcare standards and integration projects and offering perspectives and commentary on health IT.

HL7 & Healthcare Integration White Papers

Healthcare integration white papers covering topics in healthcare integration and healthcare interface engines within hospitals, clinics, labs, and manufactures.

HL7 & Healthcare Interoperability Glossary

A comprehensive healthcare IT glossary providing knowledge terms in HL7 messaging and healthcare integration.

HL7 & Healthcare Integration

Videos

Educational videos on HL7 and healthcare integration.

How Interface Engines Work with HL7

Interface Engines and HL7 -  important areas critical to facilitating your HL7 implementations.

HL7 Information

HL7 Organization

Health Level Seven (HL7) International provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity and enhance knowledge transfer among all of our stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendor community, fellow SDOs and patients.

HL7 Document Center

The latest press release, newsletters, events and updates involving HL7.

HL7 in Wikipedia

Information and related links on HL7 in Wikipedia.

HL7 Interface

A foundation on how to get started and develop an HL7 interface.

HL7 Beginners Guide article

Article focusing on healthcare professionals beginning their understanding of HL7 messaging standard as it relates to healthcare information technology.

Healthcare Integration Resources

Health & Human Services – Healthcare IT information and resources

Healthcare IT information and resources.

HITSP – Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel

Established for the purpose of harmonizing and integrating healthcare standards.

CCHIT – Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

A private, nonprofit organization recognized by the federal government as an official certification body for health information technology.

IHE – Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care.

X12

The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 develops electronic data interchange (EDI) standards and related documents for national and global markets.