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Key HL7 Definitions
What Is a BAR Message?
HL7 terms to better understand what is HL7. In the HL7 standard, Billing Account Record (BAR) messages are used to add or change the patient’s…
What Is an RDE Message?
HL7 terms to better understand what is HL7. In the HL7 standard, the message type, RDE (Pharmacy/Treatment Encoded Order Message), is used by clinical applications…
What Is the Producer’s ID in HL7?
HL7 terms to better understand what is HL7. The Producer’s ID in HL7 v2.x is a specific field of the OBX segment. This field (OBX-15)…
What Is an OBX?
HL7 terms to better understand what is HL7. In HL7 v2.x, the OBX is a segment used to transmit a single observation or observation fragment….
HL7 Engine Mapping
Mapping HL7 messages with an HL7 engine In a prior post, I described the motivation for mapping HL7 messages. As described in that post, the HL7…
HL7 Tutorial
HL7 typically involves moving message data between two or more software applications within a clinical setting. Without a standard way of defining the types of…
Who Uses HL7?
HL7 users include clinical application analysts, integration specialists, application programmers and systems analysts. These are the unsung heroes of connecting healthcare initiatives.
Overlapping Clinical Integration Standards
Discussion about the HL7 clinical data standard Competing healthcare integration standards cause much confusion for users. The HL7 clinical data standard has been growing and…
What Is HL7?
What is HL7? HL7 is the standard to which healthcare application vendors adhere when developing application interfaces to exchange patient data.