Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Posted in Healthcare Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
During the past few weeks, the debate and discussion on healthcare standards have been interesting. Outlined below are a few highlights. Highlight 1: In NextGov, an article entitled “Keep Health IT Standards Simple, Says Chief Technology Officer... Read entry ⇒
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HL7 Standards | View Comments
By now, you may have had enough of primaries and election results. What if, however, we applied the primary election process to healthcare standards? What would happen? Just as there are factions the political candidates are trying to pull together to wi... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Posted in Healthcare Integration | View Comments
Different healthcare standards or initiatives serve the different healthcare segments effectively in delivering critical information between systems. Examples of key healthcare integration standards include: HL7 Health Level Seven – provides stand... Read entry ⇒
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Posted in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
In the world of healthcare standards, the Health IT Standards Committee met today as it continues it discussions and advice to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) on health IT reform. A few interesting articles and blog posts have been published... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Posted in Healthcare Standards, HL7 Standard, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...the new HITECH world. Recently, HL7′s CEO and CTO wrote a column for Government Health IT entitled Leverage Today’s Standards for Meaningful Use. A key portion of the column states: “To discard the existing data interchange standards and... Read entry ⇒
Thank you for using your smartphone to scan the nifty QR code that brought you to the HL7 Standards healthcare blog, where you will find a wealth of information relevant to medical practices, including information on: Healthcare IT Electronic Medica... Read entry ⇒
HomeWelcome to HL7 StandardsHealth IT Social Media Primer: Click Below to Download!#HITsmHealth IT The essence of the healthcare IT industry consists of the standards used to facilitate communication. The following are resources linking to standards deve... Read entry ⇒
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Posted in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...followers. @HL7 – HL7 International (or Health Level 7) is an international not-for-profit organization, “ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, inte... Read entry ⇒
Friday, November 13th, 2009
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There is an excellent post – Talking to DC – by Adam Bosworth, highlighting his testimony to the HIT Standards Committee. Adam has been involved in several successful standards, so he offers his lessons learned as the new, new world of health... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards, What is HL7? | View Comments
Discussion about the HL7 clinical data standard Competing healthcare integration standards cause much confusion for users. The HL7 clinical data standard has been growing and changing for a very long time and it continues to do so with new releases of HL... Read entry ⇒
