Clinical

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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Supporting CDA in Clinical Applications, Part 2: XML and HTML Rendering

March 9, 2011

Software vendors in the healthcare space likely have interfaces in their systems that are capable of receiving HL7 2.x messages and processing that data through an application. In Part 1 of this series, I explained how a section in the xml allows developers to write applications to make use of the coded elements. (A patient’s [...]

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Supporting CDA in Clinical Applications, Part 1: Introduction

March 2, 2011

If you are a software vendor in the healthcare space, it is likely you have interfaces in your systems that are capable of receiving HL7 2.x messages and processing that data into your application.  Application vendors get to pick and choose which message types and triggers they support, as well as how much of the [...]

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HL7 to Develop Continuity of Care Record Clinical Document Architecture Implementation Guide

February 17, 2011

Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7) today announced that it will create an implementation guide for expressing ASTM International’s Continuity of Care Record (CCR) data set in an HL7 Version 3 (V3) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Release 2 (R2) document. This implementation guide will afford the United States healthcare industry an incremental but immediate step toward [...]

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HL7 Continues Strengthening Ties with the Clinical Community

January 18, 2011

The HL7 Board of Directors has named James Dove, MD, FAAC, to serve on its Advisory Committee. Dr. Dove currently serves as President Emeritus, Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants, Ltd (PCCL) and is also the president-elect of the American College of Cardiology. HL7 Press Releases

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Health Level Seven’s Clinical Document Architecture Gains Momentum In Healthcare Industry

December 24, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7) today announced its Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard for exchange of healthcare information is becoming a pillar of interoperability for clinical care and public health within the U.S. HL7 Press Releases

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Emergency Medicine to Benefit from the HL7′s First Registered Clinical Profile Derived from the Electronic Health Record System Functional Model Standard

December 22, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, today announced the Emergency Care Functional Profile (EC FM) as the first registered profile based upon HL7′s EHR System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) standard. HL7 Press Releases

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Health Level Seven Brings Cohesion, Responsiveness to Clinical Documentation Standards Development

November 12, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent developer of global healthcare standards, today announced breakthrough progress with its Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), including four new implementation guides. The guides address basic documentation requirements for diagnostic imaging, consultations, quality reporting and home health monitoring. These four implementation guides have been developed in response to industry demand as [...]

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HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S) Functional Requirements Standard for Clinical Research

October 1, 2010

Health Level Seven® (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 57 countries, today announced it has published the healthcare industry’s first ANSI (American National Standards Institute)-approved standard that specifies the functional requirements for regulated clinical research in an electronic health record system (EHR-S). The HL7 EHR Clinical [...]

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Health Level Seven Clinical Genomics Version 2 Messaging Standard Implementation Guide Successfully Transmits Genomic Data Electronically

September 17, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, today announced its Version 2 messaging standard has successfully gathered structured and coded genetic tests results from a lab and transmitted them to an individual patient’s EHR for the first time. The current standard for genetic test results is either [...]

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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

September 4, 2010

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 Tuesday, September 14 from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon EDT. HL7 [...]

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