Healthcare

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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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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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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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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Meaningful Use, EHR Certification, & Healthcare Integration

May 18, 2011

  There are many moving parts to achieving Meaningful Use, and using a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) application is at the core. Moving – or exchanging – is also essential since patient data needs to get from Point A to Points B, C, D, plus more. Exchanging patient data is the role an integration [...]

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SOA in Healthcare Conference: Program and First Keynote Announced

May 13, 2011

OMG® and Health Level Seven® International (HL7), along with Open Health Tools and the Business Ecology® Initiative, today announced the first keynote and that the program for the fourth annual SOA in Healthcare conference: “SOA Road-map to Integration: Architecting Interoperability in Healthcare” is now available. The conference will be held July 13-15, 2011 at the [...]

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NCPDP and HL7 Announce New Chair and Chair Elect of the SCO, an Industry-wide Collaborative Focused on Healthcare Standardization and Interoperability

April 21, 2011

HL7 Press Releases

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HL7′s HIMSS Exhibit Interoperability for the 21st Century Healthcare System (Booth 3919) Highlights e-Prescribing, EHR, Other HL7 Standards Supporting Interoperability

April 12, 2011

Health Level Seven (HL7), one of the world;s most prolific healthcare standards developers, will once again deliver its message of semantic interoperability through standards in healthcare at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition. This year the HL7 exhibit, Interoperability for the 21st Century Healthcare System, is located on the main [...]

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Health Level Seven, Object Management Group Begin Joint Healthcare Software Services Standardization Work

April 5, 2011

Health Level Seven (HL7) Inc., one of the world’s most prolific healthcare standards developers, and the IT specifications consortium Object Management Group (OMG) are collaborating to build a set of healthcare-domain software components and services interface standards to promote interoperability across health provider organizations and healthrelated software products. Conceived to support healthcare IT as part [...]

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Health Level Seven (HL7) and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Sign Associate Charter Agreement

March 3, 2011

Health Level Seven (HL7) and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) announced today the two organizations have signed a two-year, renewable associate charter agreement to formalize the existing cooperative relationship between the two groups, convey mutual benefits to their members, and establish the framework for future joint work projects. The first of these HL7/IHE collaborations will [...]

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Healthcare Interoperability Insights: Log Files

February 5, 2011

When working through the complexities of a healthcare integration project or monitoring day to day operations within your existing interface environment, it is sometimes necessary to “dig in” to the discrete message data being moved between applications, whether it is HL7, XML, X12, NCPDP SCRIPT, etc.  For instance, there are scenarios common to healthcare integration [...]

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4th Annual SOA in Healthcare Conference: Save the Date and Call for Participation

January 15, 2011

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – January 13, 2011 – OMG® and Health Level Seven® International (HL7) today announced that the fourth annual SOA in Healthcare Conference: “SOA Road-map to Integration: Architecting Interoperability in Healthcare” will be held June 14-16, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The Review Committee has issued the Call for [...]

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Interfacing Challenge: Patient Matching Examples in Healthcare Integration

January 13, 2011

After a physician’s office receives a new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, the business is primed to begin electronic exchange of clinical data with their imaging or laboratory service provider. The benefits of electronic results include reducing errors due to manual entry, improving turn-around time for reporting, increased potential revenue due to greater efficiency and [...]

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Health Level Seven Reaches Major Milestones in Fostering Harmonization of Healthcare Interoperability Standards

December 31, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7) today announced four major milestones toward harmonization of interoperability standards as a result of the HL7 Working Group meeting held January 8 – 13, 2007 in San Diego, CA. HL7 Press Releases

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HL7 Continuity of Care Document, a Healthcare IT Interoperability Standard, is Approved

December 30, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7) today announced that the Healthcare IT Interoperability Standard, has been Approved by Balloting Process and Endorsed by Healthcare IT Standards Panel. 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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SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Offer Workshop – SOA in Healthcare:

November 29, 2010

The SOA Consortium™, Object Management Group™ (OMG™), and Health Level Seven (HL7), today announced that the “SOA in Healthcare: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value and Delivery on IT’s Promise,” workshop will be held April 15-17, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Chicago, IL. Registration details may be found online at http://www.omg.org/hc-ws-hl7-pr. HL7 [...]

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SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Announce Program for SOA in Healthcare Workshop: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT’s Promise

November 27, 2010

The SOA Consortium™, Object Management Group™ (OMG™), and Health Level Seven (HL7), today announced the program for the “SOA in Healthcare: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value and Delivery on IT’s Promise,” workshop to be held April 15-17, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Chicago, IL. Registration details may be found online at [...]

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Health Level Seven Healthcare Quality Reporting Initiative Gains Momentum

November 25, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent developer of global healthcare standards, today announced strong support for the Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) initiative and a broad coalition to advance the quality reporting standard. HL7 Press Releases

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Case Study from Mayo Clinic Added to SOA in Healthcare Workshop: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT’s Promise

November 22, 2010

The SOA Consortium™, Object Management Group™ (OMG™), and Health Level Seven (HL7), today announced that Dr. Peter L. Elkin, Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, will be presenting the case study “eQuality Solutions: Enabling Safe and Effective Medical Practice while Decreasing Costs,” at the SOA in Healthcare Workshop. For more information [...]

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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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