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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Aurelia Bustos has started a very worthwhile project called the OpenReg Project. Bustos “has started working on the development of an open-source project aimed to deliver free web based tools for the collection of tumor data needed for hospital tumor registries in Europe.” Many open source projects are inspired by bureaucratic inefficiencies and frustrations. The [...]