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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
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, 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 ⇒
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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 ⇒
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Posted in Healthcare Integration, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Standards, HL7 Terms | View Comments
For system analysts and interface developers, testing and managing HL7 interface connections is a large part of day-to-day responsibilities. Therefore, knowing and understanding the nature of HL7 messages and its structure is helpful in optimizing the ti... 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 ⇒
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Posted in EMR, HL7 Messaging | View Comments
...nslates to a lab or diagnostic imaging center that they must include specific information, as identified by the EMR, within the HL7 result message (ORU) to send the reports electronically. As with any interface, the issues and solutions vary depending on ... 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 ⇒
