Electronic

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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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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Health Level Seven Signs Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicineand Biology Society (EMBS)

March 28, 2011

Health Level Seven (HL7) Inc., one of the world’s most prolific healthcare standards developers, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). This agreement is consistent with HL7′s long-standing spirit of cooperation and harmonization in healthcare standards development. HL7 [...]

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Publication of HIPAA NPRM for Electronic Claims Attachment Standards Marks Defining Moment for ASC X12 and HL7

February 27, 2011

The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 and Health Level Seven (HL7) announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for electronic claims attachments in the Federal Register. The publication of this NPRM – in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) [...]

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

December 28, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), apreeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad internationalrepresentation, today announced it has passed the healthcare industry’s first ANSI-approvedstandard that specifies the functional requirements for an electronic health record system (EHR-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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Up Close and Personal with Electronic Medical Records

December 9, 2010

I’ve been working at Corepoint Health for five years so I have an academic and professional understanding of electronic healthcare messages and the HITECH requirements including Electronic Medical Records. However, today was my first personal encounter with an Electronic Medical Record and it was very positive from a patient point of view. I went to [...]

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

November 7, 2010

Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.?January 8, 2009? Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, today announced it has passed the healthcare industry’s first ANSI-approved standard that specifies the basic functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record system (EHR-S). The HL7 Child Health Functional Profile for [...]

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HL7 Offers Free Ambassador Webinar on the Electronic Health Record and Personal Health Record System Functional Models

October 20, 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 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) and the Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) on Tuesday, October 26 from 11:00 am [...]

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Automating Performance Measurement Using Electronic Health Records–Health Quality Measure Format Ballot Announced

October 15, 2010

A broad-based initiative, led by the National Quality Forum (NQF), announced the availability of a Health Level Seven (HL7) ballot that will advance automated performance measurement and reporting. Representatives from the NQF, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Alschuler Associates, LLC, and HL7 worked together to engage critical stakeholders in standardizing the Health Quality Measure [...]

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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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“Finding My Way to Electronic Health Records” – A Testimonial by the U.S. Surgeon General

September 7, 2010

On Tuesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a testimony by the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., advocating for the use of electronic health records (EMRs) reflecting on the recently released meaningful use criteria. In addition to the article’s applicability to the HITECH news in the healthcare [...]

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Enablers of Meaningful Use: Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health Now Available

August 31, 2010

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, today announced that it has published the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (as also specified in HITSP’s Interoperability Specification IS01). The implementation guide is directly related to the initial set of standards and [...]

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HL7 and the Electronic Health Record

April 1, 2010

It is understandable that HL7 is devoting increasing attention to the EHR topic. One result is the ANSI-approved “Electronic Health Record System Functional Model Normative Standard“, which provides a reference list of 132 functions that is designed to enable the  description and common understanding of the EHR functions needed or available in different settings. Version [...]

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