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How Much Would You Pay for Your Medical Record?

June 23, 2011

I recently had to request my medical records from former physicians and have them sent to a new specialist I’m seeing. It is incredibly important for me that my new physician has a comprehensive perspective of my health. I truly believe that if he doesn’t have a complete picture, his decisions may not consider the [...]

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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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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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Health Level Seven (HL7) Develops Proof of Concept for Continuity of Care Record (CCR)

April 28, 2011

The first project to emerge from a Health Level Seven (HL7) and ASTM International memorandum of understanding signed in September has demonstrated how ASTM’s Continuity of Care Record (CCR) can be implemented as an HL7 Version 3 (V3) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) XML document. The CCR is a snapshot or mini-summary of relevant patient information [...]

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HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee Opens Balloting for CDA, Release 2.0 Implementation Guides for Care Record Summary (CRS)Documents, Levels 1 and 2; Invites Participation in Open Webinars April 13 and April 19

March 24, 2011

The Health Level Seven (HL7) Structured Documents Technical Committee (SDTC) is proud to offer the first ballot for Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Release 2.0 Implementation Guides for Care Record Summary (CRS) documents, Levels 1 and 2, US realm. Open Webinars, hosted by Dictaphone and McKesson, to introduce the Implementation Guides and to encourage participation in [...]

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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 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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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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Images Play a Vital Role in Creating a Complete Patient Record

November 23, 2010

To the dismay of the radiology community, medical imaging was not included as a key component in the initial draft of the CMS Meaningful Use (MU) of Electronic Health Records criteria. Fortunately, for patients and the tens of thousands of radiology professionals who serve them, imaging data components have been expanded and the role of [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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