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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Posted in HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
HL7 International announced that a new implementation guide for ELINCS is now available. The new guide uses HL7 2.5.1 as the foundation instead of HL7 v2.4. ELINCS stands for EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards, and it is a specification ... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Posted in CCD, EHR, EMR | View Comments
HIMSS EHRVA developed a Quick Start Guide for implementing the Continuity of Care Document (CCD). HIMSS EHRVA is a trade association of Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors. Included in the file are two sample CCDs. The guide seems to be a useful resou... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Basics, HL7 Standard | View Comments
For The Record, a leading magazine for Healthcare Information Management professionals, published an article entitled HL7 101: A Beginners Guide, essentially a “What is HL7” article. It is written by one of Corepoint Health‘s interface ... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Posted in CDA, EHR, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare Standards | View Comments
... for Stage 1 of Meaningful Use, and CCD is a constraint on CDA. So what does that make Consolidated CDA? A draft Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2.0, Consolidated CDA Templates (U.S. Realm) was released in December 2011. A copy of the draft can be fo... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Posted in Healthcare IT | View Comments
...ate backup files of all relevant data. This includes configuration settings, licenses, the original installer package (if still available), documentation, any relevant log files, and any persisted data that is queued for processing. Doing so will help ens... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Social Media | View Comments
...n – that voice inside that says, “I wonder how this works”. Second, they have to be aware of and use all the possible resources available. I believe this is where many people fail. They don’t know what resources are available or always use their “preferre... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Posted in Blogroll, Health care | View Comments
...blonski, an assistant professor of nursing at Penn State University, discusses one example of the growing wealth of information available on the Internet in a post titled, “A Growing Repository of Knowledge.” POGOe (or Portal of Online Education), is a pu... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Healthcare IT, Social Media | View Comments
...ems from “here” to “there,” we need to enhance our skills and knowledge in order to implement with the best practical knowledge available. The only way we will continue advance in our role is by learning, and social media opens up so many convenient ways ... Read entry ⇒
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards | View Comments
...broad Internet standards. In the more vertical standards world, often you have to purchase the handbook documents; they are not available for free. Whether it is X.12 (for HIPAA standards) or ASTM (for the CCR standard), you need to plunk down your credit... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Posted in CCD, EHR, HIE | View Comments
...R-to-EHR communication, the questions below raise some concerns as to how this vehicle should be utilized. 1. Is having the CCD available as an attachment sufficient? With some EHR implementations, the receiving system may not be able to support the impor... Read entry ⇒
