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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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HL7 v3 RIM: Is It Really that Intimidating?

May 31, 2011

There is little doubt that the first time you see the HL7 v3 RIM, or Reference Information Model, it will make you wonder how someone thought that this could make things easier. One of the key thoughts in moving from HL7 v2 to HL7 v3 is that the new v3 would be a model-driven methodology. [...]

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Why Facebook, Google and 37Signals do better technology than Healthcare IT

May 29, 2011

Been meaning to blog a post on this for ages. It’s pretty obviously to any entrepreneur who runs a medical software company why technology in health care tends to lag behind what other industries have.  The best technology to be found is in the consumer sector – consumers buy products they themselves want to use.  [...]

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How do you make a Pink Daiquiri?

May 28, 2011

Dear Agony Aunt, My husband is having an affair with his secretary. He brings her home and they hang out in our bedroom, while he wants me to make them pink daiquiri’s in the kitchen. My problem is – how do I make a pink daiquiri? For anyone that knows me, it is a favorite [...]

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Chocolate Teapot Not Otherwise Classified

May 27, 2011

There is one standard objection from the HL7 community to the position of ontological realism which underlies the commentary provided on this blog. This is that the ontological realist strives for ‘perfection’, where HL7 and its ilk, more sensibly, strive for mere ‘practical utility’. Examination of the concrete proposals made under the ontologically realist heading [...]

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Remember Your Manners

May 25, 2011

At one time or another, you may have heard a book titled, “All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” by Robert Fulghum. The book is incredibly creative and acquired worldwide popularity for its nuanced way of explaining success in adulthood. Robert takes some of the lessons we learn in Kindergarten, like “share [...]

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HL7 Offers Free Ambassador Webinar on the Electronic Health Record and Personal Health Record System Functional Models on May 31, 2011

May 25, 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 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) and the Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) on Tuesday, May 31 from 1:00 pm [...]

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Kudos to a Physician for Transferring to an EHR

May 21, 2011

Six months ago I wrote a post regarding my experience with one of my specialists converting to an Electronic Health Record. They were only three weeks into the process when I had my visit and it took a little bit longer than normal since I had to meet with a registration person to fill in [...]

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When is supporting the XML encoding of HL7 2.X a good idea?

May 21, 2011

This question came up on the HL7 mailing lists recently so I thought I would give a business perspective on it. I would say that less than 0.5% of the market implements the XML encoding of HL7 2.X in XML.  I gave some of my perspective already with my article on why a JSON encoding [...]

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Modular EHR Certification for an Interface Engine – What Does It Mean?

May 19, 2011

As the product manager of Corepoint Integration Engine, it has been an interesting learning experience from the time the decision was made to pursue the EHR modular certification to the time certification was achieved. And, before beginning the certification trek, time was spent trying to uncover the real story of whether an integration engine even [...]

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Ivar Jacobson to Keynote SOA in Healthcare Conference

May 19, 2011

OMG® and Health Level Seven® International (HL7), along with Open Health Tools and the Business Ecology® Initiative, today announced that Dr. Ivar Jacobson, Founder, Chairman and CTO, Ivar Jacobson International, will be giving a keynote address at the fourth annual SOA in Healthcare conference: “SOA Road-map to Integration: Architecting Interoperability in Healthcare”. The conference will [...]

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