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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Standards | View Comments
want “a little interfacing.” Standards profiling helps resolve this issue. Often clinical software vendors consider integration functionality late in the product lifecycle and often do not consider it strategic to sales or deployments. This me... Read entry ⇒
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging | View Comments
HL7 messaging provides a method to move or transfer information between two or more clinical software applications within a healthcare setting. There are two major versions of HL7: HL7 2.x and HL7 3.x. In the United States, today almost all production HL... Read entry ⇒
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Standard | View Comments
ng each element will be (field or component length). These two terms are critical to understanding how data will move within an integration project: Cardinality: Sometimes an element will be considered required (minimum cardinality of one) and sometimes o... Read entry ⇒
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Posted in CDA, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standards | View Comments
For those who have been involved with the HL7 Standards over these past decade, there has been a slow evolution to expand the standards, change the approach (i.e., HL7 V2 to HL7 V3), and include clinical documentation. Healthcare integration initiatives ... Read entry ⇒
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Posted in Healthcare Integration, HL7 Integration | View Comments
...Alex’s insights were good, and I thought I would share them and some thoughts of how this debunking applies to healthcare integration. As a long time healthcare integration professional, I’m often faced with questions generated both internally... Read entry ⇒
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard | View Comments
uses an HL7 interface? There are several types of roles involved with HL7 interfaces, including clinical application analysts, integration specialists, application programmers, and systems analysts. How should you approach an HL7 interface? To facilitate... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Standard | View Comments
ndard, and convert the \T\ to the ‘&’ character prior to importing this information into their system. When pursuing an HL7 integration project in the real world, it is very common to interface with a system that claims to be HL7 compliant, but they d... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Posted in CDA, HL7 Standard, What is HL7? | View Comments
You may have read about how the HL7 standard relates to various healthcare IT initiatives like ELINCS, CCR, and HL7 CDA. You may also be aware of the sea-tide change among clinics and their EMR systems as they now are actively building integration soluti... Read entry ⇒
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, Healthcare Standards | View Comments
...today are using the HL7 2.x encoded format, these new standards are choosing to use XML as their message format. The healthcare integration standards are new, but the idea of using XML to transmit clinical information has been around for a long time. In f... Read entry ⇒
