Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Posted in Healthcare Standards, HL7 Terms, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...ould be good to share some key information. First, a definition of HL7 QRDA is required. From the HL7 Wiki on this topic, it is defined as: “…a standard for communicating health care quality measurement information. The standard will conform t... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard | View Comments
When embarking into an HL7 integration project, specifications can be a great resource of information. HL7 specifications for an interface project to exchange clinical data is no different. An interface implies two sides, each side being a clinical appli... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Posted in HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard | View Comments
TCP/IP protocols mean that the data just starts coming in a stream, so how do you know where one HL7 message ends and the next one starts? There is no set size. Some messages are quite concise, with a couple segments. Other HL7 standard messages are extr... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Standard | View Comments
... an identifying character, followed by 0 or more characters. The most common use of these escape sequences is to escape the HL7 defined delimiter characters. These delimiter or separator characters are defined in MSH-1 and MSH-2 of the HL7 message and typ... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Posted in HIE, HITECH, NIHN | View Comments
...lth information electronically between two or more entities. The Markle Foundation uses the Wikipedia definition of HIE: HIE is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region or community. HIE pro... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Posted in Health care | View Comments
...this could easily fill up an entire semester of material, but it is a surprisingly rich and interesting history. COPC was first defined by Sydney Kark based on five basic questions: What is the community’s current state of health? What are the factors t... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Posted in EHR, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Messaging | View Comments
... it does not encompass several other typical scenarios (at least as of the draft date). Two examples of use cases that are not defined are the transmission of a lab compendium of tests, and the case where reflexed lab orders in the LIS request new requis... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, Healthcare Integration | View Comments
...arly indicate the semantic meaning. Each coding solution has its own advantages and disadvantages. Negation Negation is clearly defined in the RIM model, and ideally if there is a way to express a semantic directly using the RIM then that would be the pre... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Posted in HL7 Standard, HL7 Terms, What is HL7? | View Comments
...omponents Components contain sub-components Cardinality for these groups, segments, fields, components, and sub-components are defined using the following markers: [Square Brackets] indicate something is optional; and {Curly Brackets} indicate something ... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Posted in EHR, EMR, Health care, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards | View Comments
...dard of eligibility for original licensure and renewal of licensure, to implement computerized physician order entry systems as defined by the department. The systems shall be certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology... Read entry ⇒
