The HL7 organization is offering online courses to learn … HL7. Sounds pretty cool. I especially like the “online” part. This is from their press release:
Taught by HL7 certified professionals, participants will work on real-world exercises to learn how to confront a project involving interoperability among disparate healthcare information systems. They will also learn how [...]
An interesting post by Dr. Barry Smith on his blog, HL7 Watch. Smith quotes a recent House of Commons meeting in the U.K. where at least one official remarks that HL7 3 is far from complete and considers its use “high risk”. Smith also raises concerns about how truly multilingual the standard is:
“The HL7 Reference [...]
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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