June 2011

ACLA and HL7 Announce Approval of First-Ever Electronic Directory of Services (eDOS) Implementation Guide

June 27, 2011

The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) and Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) announce the approval of the first-ever implementation guide in the laboratory industry for a reliable process to deliver a laboratory’s electronic Directory of Service to those providers ordering laboratory services in a meaningful and constructive process. HL7 Press Releases

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How Much Would You Pay for Your Medical Record?

June 23, 2011

I recently had to request my medical records from former physicians and have them sent to a new specialist I’m seeing. It is incredibly important for me that my new physician has a comprehensive perspective of my health. I truly believe that if he doesn’t have a complete picture, his decisions may not consider the [...]

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Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D, to Keynote SOA in Healthcare Conference

June 21, 2011

OMG® and Health Level Seven® International (HL7), along with Open Health Tools and the Business Ecology® Initiative, today announced that Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, will be giving a keynote address at the fourth annual SOA in [...]

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2011 #HITsm Mid-Year Report

June 19, 2011

Each year, HL7 Standards presents Top #HITsm Contributor Awards to proactive, energetic and optimistic individuals who share the health IT message with their social networks. These individuals are a noteworthy group of people, proactively defining the future of health IT. As social media leaders, they make up the foundation for the health IT information network [...]

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Does anybody out there love the RIM?

June 17, 2011

From Grahame Grieve at Health Intersections: The most remarkable aspect about the wide feedback I’ve received about the HL7 Fresh Look taskforce is the comments about the RIM.  One person – just one solitary person – put it to me forcefully that the original direction of the RIM (+ design by constraint + the XML [...]

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HL7 Offers Free Ambassador Webinar-CDA® Release 2 and the CCD®: Standards for the Meaningful Exchange of Health Information and Clinical Summaries

June 15, 2011

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, will present a complimentary Ambassador webinar on the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2.0 (CDA) and the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) on Wednesday, June 22 from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon EDT. HL7 [...]

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What do you think is the most promising initiative in health IT? Poll Results

June 15, 2011

From Meaningful Use to ICD-10, CPOE and discussions of the most effective method for health information exchange, there are enough initiatives happening in healthcare IT at once to make one’s head spin. Although every initiative in the health IT space is worthy of attention, it is not realistic for health care providers and IT departments [...]

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Modeling Tutorial Track Added to SOA in Healthcare Conference

June 13, 2011

OMG® and Health Level Seven® International (HL7), along with Open Health Tools and the Business Ecology® Initiative, today announced that a Modeling Tutorial track has been added to the fourth annual SOA in Healthcare conference: “SOA Road-map to Integration: Architecting Interoperability in Healthcare”. The conference will be held July 13-15, 2011 at the Hyatt Dulles, [...]

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Attention Radiologists: Meaningful Use Is Relevant to You

June 11, 2011
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Remember Your Story

June 10, 2011

I fell in love with healthcare while working as a radiology technician aide at a well-known imaging center in Dallas during college. I was working late one evening with one of our senior technicians, when I realized the profound opportunity a relationship between health care and technology could provide. Typically evening shifts were quiet and [...]

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Why Electronic Attachments will become an Industry Standard Solution

June 9, 2011

New technologies from the cloud to virtual assistants are transforming the way provider offices operate.  As the health care industry strives for greater efficiencies and adopts sustainable measures, submitting medical claims on paper seems to be a thing of the past.  A less costly and fast solution has emerged that is paving the way for [...]

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CDA Levels of Interoperability

June 2, 2011

The need for interoperability is readily apparent in the healthcare industry. But what does interoperability mean with regards to richness of data? The CDA document is defined with three different levels of interoperability: Level 1: Includes the CDA Header plus a body consisting of an unstructured blob, such as PDF, DOC, or even a scanned [...]

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HL7 International Appoints ONC’s Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, to the Board of Directors

June 1, 2011

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced the appointment of Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), to the HL7 Board of Directors. HL7 [...]

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