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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Standards | View Comments
y different things based on who asks the question. However, when most people say “HL7″ they mean the “HL7 2.X messaging standard.” A much smaller number of people mean HL7 3.X, CCOW, EHR, CCD, CCR, CDA, etc. If we use the common de... 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 25th, 2008
Posted in CDA, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standards | View Comments
hat is the difference between HL7 messages and HL7 documents? Outlined below is quick review of differences. HL7 Messages: HL7 messaging is usually a real-time flow of patient and clinical information. They convey current information about a patient, inc... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Posted in Healthcare Integration, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Standards, HL7 Terms | View Comments
who interface to it, is inconvenienced by the time and money it costs to customize an interface to accommodate the non-standard messaging type. With the help of an interface engine, communicating with vendors using different versions of HL7 or other messa... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Posted in Healthcare Standards, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standards | View Comments
ily of international standards that are endorsed by or used within many countries. The HL7 standards — be them older V2.X messaging, new 3.X messaging, CDA/CCR/CDA, etc — reflect input from many realms. This internationalization of HL7 has bee... Read entry ⇒
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Posted in HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards | View Comments
e into developing and maintaining HL7 V2 interfaces worldwide. From a financial perspective alone, it is inconceivable that HL7 messaging that uses V2 would quickly disappear. Learn more details about the HL7 Standards, including HL7 V3, with the white pa... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Posted in CCR, HL7 Standards | View Comments
he four walls of hospitals. Thus, the CCR is focused on inter-facility communication while HL7 is focused on the intra-facility messaging. HL7 2.X is a “triggered” and real time protocol. That is, systems within the hospital want to know where... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard | View Comments
his site, we have written many posts about working with various healthcare standards with a strong focus on HL7 interfacing and messaging. Outlined below are three posts worth a read to gain further insights on developing and testing HL7 interfaces. Gett... Read entry ⇒
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Posted in CDA, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard | View Comments
Moving images, documents, or rich text between systems via HL7 messaging (v 2.x) is possible using the HL7 ORU^R01 transaction. Historically, documents were moved as simple lines of ASCII text. With increased connectivity between hospitals, EMRs, labs, a... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Posted in CCD, CDA, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards | View Comments
nt for a project – rather than the ending point. V3 appears to be morphing even more into a reference model and less of a messaging standard. Things are still in a relative state of flux as far as how V3 will be implemented by entities as evidenced ... Read entry ⇒
