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Health Level Seven’s ANSI-Approved Structured Product Labeling (SPL): A Model Standard for Present and Future

April 17, 2011

Health Level Seven’s new Structured Product Labeling (SPL) Release 1.0 standard, which received approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in August 2004, is a model standard that both addresses the practical needs of the present and provides for robust future solutions. HL7 Press Releases

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HL7′s EHR Technical Committee Enhances System Functional Model New Public Comment to Open this Summer

March 8, 2011

Health Level Seven’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) Technical Committee (TC) has enhanced the draft EHR System (EHR-S) Functional Model by incorporating broad stakeholder input, and will open the updated draft standard for public comment sometime this summer. This will represent the first time in almost a year that the draft standard will be available for [...]

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HL7′s EHR Technical Committee Opens Public Comment on Enhanced EHR Functional Model

March 7, 2011

The Health Level Seven (HL7) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Technical Committee (TC) today announced the opening of a public comment period on the enhanced draft EHR System (EHR-S) Functional Model. The comment period is open from August 26 to September 9 and is intended to elicit feedback from a broad range of industry stakeholders. All [...]

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HL7 Reference Information Model Becomes ISO Standard

January 18, 2011

Health Level Seven (HL7), one of the world’s most prolific healthcare standards developers, today announced the August 3, 2006 publication of ISO/HL7 21731:2006 – Health Informatics – HL7 Version 3 – Reference Information Model (RIM) – Release 1. HL7 became a Standards Partner of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) through the American National Standards [...]

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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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HL7′s EHR Technical Committee Opens Public Comment on Personal Health Record System (PHR-S) Functional Model

December 14, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, today announced the opening of a public comment period on the Electronic Health Record Technical Committee’s Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM). HL7 Press Releases

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HL7 Releases Ballot for Personal Health Record Functional Model as a Draft Standard for Trial Use

December 6, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, today announced the release of a ballot to approve its Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU). HL7 Press Releases

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Health Level Seven’s Personal Health Record Functional Model Approved as a Draft Standard for Trial Use

December 3, 2010

Health Level Seven HL7 Press Releases

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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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Health Level Seven Publishes Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a Draft Standard for Trial Use

November 8, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad national and international representation, today announced that the HL7 Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) has been published as a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) and is available for download from the HL7 website. The PHR-S FM defines the [...]

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Health Level Seven’s EHR-System Functional Model Becomes an International ISO Standard

September 21, 2010

Health Level Seven® (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in over 55 countries, today announced its Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Functional Model Release 1.1 has been published as an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The model will enable vendors worldwide to develop, [...]

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Use the Mint Model to Empower Patients

September 14, 2010

Imagine a Mint-enabled healthcare world. What is Mint? Below is a description from the Mint website about their product. “With Mint, you can achieve better online financial management in less than five minutes… It automatically pulls together your bank, credit union and credit card data, and provides up-to-date and amazingly accurate views of your financial—life [...]

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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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