Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
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 ⇒
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 ⇒
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 ⇒
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
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 ⇒
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 ⇒
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 ⇒
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, Healthcare Standards | View Comments
There are a number of ‘new’ healthcare standards that are beginning to be implemented in clinical interfacing today. Acronyms such as CCR, CDA, and CCD are becoming common words in everyday interfacing discussions. While most interfaces today... Read entry ⇒
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Standard | View Comments
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 ⇒
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 ⇒
