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ELINCS

July 18th, 2007 by Dave Shaver Print Friendly

The EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Specification (ELINCS) specification provides a profile that refines (or constrains) “standard” HL7 messages to moving lab results from reference labs to physician offices. Like IHE, the ELINCS profile constrains the generic HL7 standard to a specific set of use cases. In addition the ELINCS standard provides business rules that must be followed between the trading partners. Such rules are outside the scope of the base HL7 standard.

ELINCS is part of the 2007 CCHIT Ambulatory Interoperability requirements.

Note that sometimes this standard is misspelled as e-links or elinks.

Resources for ELINCS:

This diagram shows the most common use case for ELINCS:

ELINCS common use diagram

Related posts:

  1. ELINCS Standard: Laboratory Results to EMRs
  2. HL7 2.X Interoperability and Conformance Profiles
  3. What Are the Different Standards in Healthcare?
  4. How Do I Get a Copy of the HL7 Specification / Manual?
  5. Who Uses HL7?
Posted in EMR, HL7 Standard
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