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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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JSON – A natural standard

May 17, 2011

What is JSON? It stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is rapidly becoming the standard for transmitting data between applications.  It is like XML but a lot less heavy weight. It is much easier to write a JSON parser than an XML parser. There are huge number of JSON parsers implemented in every language you can think [...]

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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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Health Level Seven’s Chinese Affiliate Publishes Translation of Version 2.4 Messaging Standard

April 1, 2011

HL7 China has announced that it has translated Version 2.4 of the HL7 messaging standard and is now making it available to the Chinese market. HL7 China, which was established in May 2000, joins other HL7 international affiliates in providing language translations of the standards to their country constituents. HL7 Press Releases

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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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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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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 Releases Newest Approved American National Standard: Version 2.5.1

December 20, 2010

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, today announced the release of HL7′s Messaging Standard Version 2.5.1 to support the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendment (CLIA) for the exchange of electronic laboratory information. The CLIA was passed by Congress in 1988 to establish quality standards for all laboratory [...]

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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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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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Health Level Seven and the American Dental Association Sign Agreement to Develop Joint Healthcare IT Standard Initiatives

October 12, 2010

Health Level Seven® (HL7) and the American Dental Association (ADA) today announced they signed an Associate Charter Agreement to develop joint initiatives to harmonize healthcare informatics standards to create consistent dental IT standards in the US and enhance the coordination of patient care between medical and dental practices. HL7 Press Releases

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Health Level Seven Version 2.5 Becomes an International Standard

October 10, 2010

Health Level Seven® (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 57 countries, today announced its Version 2.5 messaging standard has been approved as an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). HL7 Press Releases

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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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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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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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