Data

HL7 Publishes Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer Implementation Guide

May 3, 2011

May 2, 2011-Health Level Seven International (HL7®) today announced the release of the Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer Implementation Guide. The HL7 CCD guide was created for the U.S. payer stakeholder community and is intended to be used with the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 Patient Information (275) Implementation Guide, to ensure consistency [...]

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Liquid Data and the Health Information Economy: Is 2011 Finally the Year?

March 17, 2011

What a difference three years makes. It seems quaint now that in the 2008 NEJM there were concerns raised about the flow of health information onto the web. Back then there was but a faint trickle of what could be entered, mostly by hand, and accessed on the web. Before HITECH and health care reform, exchanging [...]

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Interfacing Challenge: Patient Data Matching with HL7 Messages

December 3, 2010

More independent reference laboratories and imaging centers are connecting to their referring community of physicians by creating interfaces between their Laboratory Information System (LIS), Radiology Information System (RIS), and the physician’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. In their efforts to create a seamless process of transmitting electronic results, they typically find challenges in various aspects [...]

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HL7 and ASC X12 Offer Webinar on Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer Implementation Guide Ballot

November 21, 2010

Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7) and the Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12) today announced a joint webinar on the Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer Implementation Guide developed in collaboration with Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). The Implementation Guide is currently being balloted through HL7. HL7 [...]

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Optimizing Your Data Integrity Model – Part 2

November 19, 2010

Finding a balance in your interface testing and monitoring approach that proactively utilizes both features is instrumental if you seek to ensure the quality of data you transfer to external applications. GEN I Feed

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Optimizing Your Data Integrity Model – Part 1

November 17, 2010

Demand for healthcare interfaces is rising, and there is a rapid pace in which healthcare entities are working to connect various internal applications and external resources. Without the right data integrity model, the confidence in the deployed interfaces will be low, and the support costs will be high. Clinical data not received properly, or received [...]

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Are the ISO 21090 Data Types Too Complex?

November 12, 2010

An interesting series of postings on this topic on the openEHR lists. Once again, it would seem, HL7 has succeeded in bringing about a situation in which an international standard is needlessly difficult to use. As Thomas Beale puts it, while ISO 21090 (“Health Informatics — Harmonized data types for information interchange”) presents itself as a [...]

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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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The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me

September 12, 2010

A very interesting post: The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me in which Joe Bugajski describes how far we are from an electronic health record environment that would serve the patient. The situation described is one in which the patient, as he moves through the healthcare system, is called upon to answer questions, over and [...]

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