An excellent, humorous summary of HL7 from Amry Kithman of HL7 Malaysia Inc:
“You went inside a store. The shop owner started talking mandarin to you knowing too well you wouldn’t understand a single word uttered….. you smile… showed him the fake Gucci bag and start asking him in English how much it will cost (knowing [...]
Here’s the summary from Microsoft’s MSDN, “Empowering patients and consumers to exchange Electronic Health Records securely is a big debate in the health industry across the globe. Learn how to use Office Open XML Formats and custom XML formats to exchange data securely.” Microsoft even provides some sample templates for Office 2007 developers. The full [...]
There’s an interview with HL7’s new CTO, John Quinn, in this month’s Healthcare Informatics. Quinn is also Chief Techie in Accenture’s U.S. Provider Practice. I’ve worked with Accenture in the past and they have considerable experience in this area. It’s going to be interesting to see where Quinn wants to take HL7. Even though he’s [...]
Version 0.2.50 of the Ruby-HL7 library has been released. The library provides a simple API for parsing and generating HL7 2.x messages. This release is a maintenance release, it fixes an incompatibility with the latest facets release. HL7 3.0 support is planned for a future release
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The goal of HL7 is to make the exchange of healthcare information more accurate and more efficient. This goal is becoming more realistic with new projects that are consolidating and opening access to medical professionals online. However, this is making people a bit squeamish about sharing such personal data. To many, their medical information should [...]