by Matthew on July 20, 2007
HL7 Connection has been going through some minor changes over the last few weeks. I have settled on a new design for the site which I think highlights content better. It will take a few days to integrate the design into the forums but they are back online. We now have almost 100 registered users with over 50 people subscribing to the site RSS feeds. The site averages around 92 visitors a day and 274 pageviews. Considering HL7 is a pretty niche topic, I think this is a great start for the first 3 months. Thanks to everyone that has stopped by and registered. Don’t forget, you can subscribe to the RSS feed or sign up for the newsletter. Thanks again, Matthew…
by Matthew on July 11, 2007
The HL7 organization has released a profile of the structural requirements for an electronic health record. From Healthcare IT News, “The profile represents a significant boost for the adoption of electronic records, says Don Mon, vice president of practice leadership with the American Health Information Association and co-chair of HL7’s EHR Technical Committee.”
by Matthew on July 11, 2007
Optical Image Technology’s DocFinity has a new HL7 module to integrate with their document management system. From their website, “HL7 messages can be used to create and add to electronic patient records and to trigger workflows.” Sounds pretty snazzy. As ERM heats up, these type of healthcare solutions are going to be critical for truly streamlined document management.
by Matthew on July 11, 2007
Paperless, huh? Well, that’s the plan and they are going to using HL7 to do it. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has initiated two new steps in building an electronic health care system that will allow patients and their physicians to access their complete medical records as needed, leading to reduced medical errors, improved patient care, and reduced health care costs. It sounds like the system is going to be linked together using HL7 (no big surprise there). HHS has even asked the HL7 organization to review their work.
by Matthew on July 11, 2007
Looks like Google may be diving into the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) space with the launch of their new Health Advisory Council. From the Medical Connectivity Consulting blog, “vendors continue to struggle with device connectivity – with vendors creating “open” interfaces that only work with their own medical device or EMR (think Welch Allyn or AllScripts). Retrospective connectivity via HL7 is easy to develop, but expensive to deploy (each installation must be configured); prospective “plug and play” connectivity is the easiest to deploy, but requires that competing vendors work together (something they are traditionally loath to do).”
I wonder what they are up to? This is definitely something to keep an eye on. It was only a matter of time before the word “Google” could be used in the same sentence with “HL7″.