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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
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
t agree what elements will be sent (field cardinality) and how long 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... 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 ⇒
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard | View Comments
With the discussion on healthcare interoperability escalating, it is good to take a step back and outline some basics of an HL7 interface. Understanding an HL7 interface is essential as well as approaches to take in implementing a growing number of HL7 ... Read entry ⇒
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Posted in HL7 Messaging, HL7 Terms | View Comments
On a previous HL7 Messaging Z-Segment post, a reader responded with two questions. Outlined below are the questions about these HL7 terms and my answers. HL7 Question 1: Can I insert a Z-segment anywhere in the HL7 message or can I only place the Z-segme... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Posted in CDA | View Comments
look to HL7 to “force” an application to do something that “seems obvious” to them and their world. In terms of document formats from the perspective of a sending application, they wish that their “pretty report” would... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Posted in HL7 Integration, HL7 Standard | View Comments
HL7 defines character sequences to represent ‘special’ characters not otherwise permitted in HL7 messages. These sequences begin and end with the message’s Escape character (usually ‘\’), and contain an identifying character... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Posted in HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards | View Comments
HL7 Standards Update. HL7 2.X continues to march forward with new releases. HL7 2.6 is done (just published this week) and proposals for 2.7 have closed — the first ballot for HL7 2.7 will be in May 2008. From a practical perspective, this means th... Read entry ⇒
