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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Standards | View Comments
HL7 is extensively adopted within the healthcare community. The HL7 standards has been under development since the late 1980s and represents the de facto method of moving clinical healthcare data. To clarify, the term “HL7” can mean many diff... Read entry ⇒
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging | View Comments
map HL7 messages is typically caused by one or more of the following: Applications implementing different versions of the HL7 standard Different workflows or application data models in the sending and receiving applications Applications not correctly im... Read entry ⇒
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards, HL7 Terms, What is HL7? | View Comments
Mapping HL7 messages with an HL7 engine In a prior post, I described the motivation for mapping HL7 messages. As described in that post, the HL7 2.X messaging standard is the most widely used method to move healthcare information yet the details of the m... Read entry ⇒
Friday, January 5th, 2007
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The HL7 standard defines the maximum field length and field cardinality in an effort to help developers define their clinical databases and interfacing requirements. The field length has always been the “recommended maximum” and, frankly, the... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
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The HL7 2.X message standard has multiple chapters that provide the general rules by which HL7 compliant applications should communicate. The chapter layout came about in the beginning of HL7 based on the committees structure used to create the standard.... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Posted in Healthcare Integration, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Standards, HL7 Terms | View Comments
consultant at Corepoint Health, Alex Lin, identifies his top three suggestions that everyone should know about working with HL7 standards: A standard is not a rule, only a suggestion. HL7 is a standard. By definition, a “standard” is, “a basis for compa... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
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The objectives in creating the new HL7 standard – HL7 V3 – were: Internationalization – HL7 V3 needs to be able to be used by the worldwide HL7 organization while supporting the need for local variants. Consistent Data Model – HL... Read entry ⇒
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards | View Comments
One of the first challenges when researching HL7 interfaces and connectivity is answering the question, “How do download a copy of the HL7 standard specification?” The unfortunate answer is that there is no free copy of the HL7 manual. You pu... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Posted in CDA, HL7 Standards | View Comments
One of the most common ways to integrate the HL7 CDA Standard into existing solutions is to create a CDA document from an HL7 Version 2 message. Three HL7 Version 2 messages are commonly used to do this: MDM_T02, ORU_R01, and ADT_* messages. The way that... Read entry ⇒
