There was an interesting article on the Daily Kos over the weekend, “EHR, Electronic Medical Records - The Doc Loses” by J.D. Wolverton which critiques the state of American electronic medical records (EMR). Wolverton says, “The US government has issued standards via HIPAA. These work because they primarily focus on revenue issues, but standardizing the [...]
For those Microsoft geeks that have been chomping at the bit to get an open-source .NET HL7 parser, your day has arrived. Ashley over at the Coditate blog has dug up a project that ports HAPI to .Net. I’ll add this to the links section, too. Be sure to take a look at the excellent [...]
If talk of HL7 data types gets you excited, then run - don’t walk - on over to the latest ballot here. As if one data type isn’t enough to get excited about, the committee says that they are “currently pursuing two different work streams with the data types.” You can out more at the [...]