August 2010

Federal Computer Week Honors HL7 CEO Dr. Charles Jaffe with Federal 100 Award

August 31, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, is a recipient of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award. The Federal 100 Award recognizes professionals from government and industry who made significant contributions to the federal [...]

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Enablers of Meaningful Use: Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health Now Available

August 31, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, today announced that it has published the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (as also specified in HITSP’s Interoperability Specification IS01). The implementation guide is directly related to the initial set of standards and [...]

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How does HL7 work?

August 30, 2010

Whenever I travel for work, one of the most common questions I hear is “How does HL7 work?” HL7 is not always one of the sexiest subjects, but as interoperability and connectivity continue to be huge drivers in the health care space, the questions of HL7 are going to continue to be asked. So, after [...]

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What does an HL7 message look like?

August 29, 2010

When I created my first animated video – How does HL7 work? – I never imagined it would have the reach and impact it did. In the few short weeks since it was released, the video has found its way onto dozens of corporate blogs, industry publications and personal sites. It seems the interest in [...]

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On Problems with HL7 Documentation and with HL7 XML

August 29, 2010

I respond below to two critical comments from Kevin Coonan which, following the earlier comments from Graham Grieve, point to a welcome new trend for those submitting comments to this blog, in that they are submitted non-anonymously. (Comments to HL7 Watch are moderated, but all signed comments are passed through automatically.) Comment 1 (to HL7 [...]

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hoot72: An Ontology for HL7 v. 2.3

August 28, 2010

hoot72 is an interesting experiment by CDC to create an OWL ontology to capture in a coherent fashion the major entities recognized in HL7 v. 2.3. The ontology is associated with a blog, which draws attention to some of the unfortunate consequences which flow from the fact that HL7 is flexible in the familiar ways [...]

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HL7 to Offer Program on Standards for Meaningful Use of EHR Technology at Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting

August 27, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, today announced the speakers for their Ambassador program on Standards for Meaningful Use being held Monday, October 4, 2010 in Cambridge, MA. This program qualifies for three Continuing Medical Education credits (CME) approved through the American College of Physicians [...]

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Would Tightening the Definitions in HL7 Make Things Worse?

August 27, 2010

In a recent post I pointed to errors created by the flexibility of HL7, for example because it allows the NK code for ‘next of kin’ to be used in a message also, for example, when referring to a nurse. Graham Grieve has entered a Comment to this post, defending a view of the NK [...]

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Save the Date and Call for Participation: 3rd Annual SOA in Healthcare Conference, Presented by OMG and HL7 International

August 26, 2010

OMG™ and Health Level Seven® International (HL7) today announced that the third annual “SOA in Healthcare: Improving Health through Technology: The role of SOA on the path to meaningful use,” conference will be held July 12-14, 2010 at the Westin Arlington Gateway, in Washington, D.C. In addition, the Conference Review Committee has issued the Call [...]

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Who do you believe is the real winner with Meaningful Use? Poll Results

August 25, 2010

In a recent poll, we asked our readers who they felt would benefit the most from the recently released meaningful use standards and incentives. The results indicated that meaningful use is understood to be focused on the improvement of patient care, and there is a belief that insurance companies may benefit in the process of [...]

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HL7 Internationalisation Pioneer Prof. Joachim Dudeck dies at 77

August 25, 2010

Prof. Joachim Dudeck, the founder of the first HL7 Affiliate (HL7 Germany) and the first Affiliates Director on the HL7 Inc. Board, died last week. He was 77. In August 2000, Joachim convened the first International HL7 Affiliates Meeting (now known as IHIC) in his beloved Dresden. He was active in CEN TC 251 and [...]

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Making Meaningful Use Meaningful

August 24, 2010

From almost every direction, echoes of concern have been heard across the industry regarding the practicality of the Meaningful Use expectations. GEN I Feed

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Health Level Seven India Successfully Launches First e-Learning Course Offerings

August 23, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, today announced that the HL7 India Affiliate has successfully launched the HL7 e-Learning Course (ELC) program. The first session concluded in December 2009 and included students from India, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. HL7 Press Releases

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Chrome + Iguana = One Smooth User Experience

August 23, 2010

I finally got around to installing the Mac version of Chrome on my laptop this weekend and wow! It really is super fast! It’s by far the best browser I have used to access Iguana in terms of performance. Screens that would be a little sluggish with IE are rendered so quickly it’s absolutely a [...]

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Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rule – Healthcare Standards Overview

August 22, 2010

John D. Halamka MD in his Life as a CIO Blog, provides a good summary and commentary on the Final Rules issued for Meaningful Use and Standards. His two posts are: GEN I Feed

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Health Level Seven International Comments on Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology

August 21, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, has released comments supporting moving forward on the development of programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology. HL7 Press Releases

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Meaningful Use Resources

August 21, 2010

“ONC did an excellent job of creating pragmatic, achievable guidelines for physicians while still maintaining an ambitious vision for health IT… Now that EHR systems are affordable and Meaningful Use is within grasp – doctors have absolutely no reason to stick with paper records.” – Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion “We have revised the [...]

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Free HL7 Ambassador Webinar: The Healthcare Connection on Tuesday, June 8

August 20, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced the first in a series of HL7 Ambassador Webinars – “The HL7 Healthcare Connection.” The HL7 Healthcare Connection is a free webinar that will be held on Tuesday, June 8 from noon [...]

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Lean or McDonald’s: Is the Concept Applicable to Radiology Workflow?

August 19, 2010

A post on the KevinMD.com site caught my eye. The title: Why radiology should become more like McDonald’s. Attention-getting, yes. Applicable, maybe. The article was written by Paul Dorio, MD, an interventional radiologist. In reading his article, it seemed to be directed toward two concepts. The first concept is that radiology practices need to communicate [...]

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The Multiple Joys of HL7 V3

August 19, 2010

An intelligent post from Keith Boone on his Healthcare Standards blog on the need for greater architectural oversight in the HL7 v3 community, to protect against burgeoning modeling inconsistencies: One of the joys of HL7 Version 3 are the many different ways that you can say the same thing depending upon the context of your [...]

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HL7 and SNOMED CT – The Book

August 18, 2010

One long-standing complaint of this blog is the absence of clear, simple, explanatory, helpful and reliable literature on the HL7 RIM. It is thus a pleasure to note the appearance on-line of a pre-publication version of the new book by Tim Benson entitled Principles of Health Interoperability – HL7 and SNOMED, which is to be [...]

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