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Archive | HL7 Integration
Using HL7 to integrate applications and streamline patient data flow.
IHE IT Infrastructure Work Items Selected
The IHE IT Infrastructure Committee has selected its work items for the next annual cycle. This year, a significant increase in total work made it…
HL7 ADT Q&A with Dave Shaver
Is there a national standard to what the baseline structure for what an ADT (A28, A31) message should include? Are there national specifications/schematics that say…
5 Things to Know About HL7 FHIR
A new term spreading (almost like fire) through the healthcare interoperability world is HL7 FHIR, pronounced as “fire.” Here are the Top 5 things I…
Is HL7 Still Meaningful?
HITECH. Meaningful Use. HIE. IHE. Many words and acronyms, but there is one often overlooked — Health Level Seven or HL7. While HITECH and Meaningful…
A Peek Inside IHE Connectathon
The IHE Connectathon event for 2012 was held in Chicago last week. Connectathon allows vendors from healthcare IT to test their ability to support IHE…
Interface Documentation: Huh? What? Come Again?
As a service provider, you might have requested documentation from a vendor. As a vendor, you may be searching for documentation regarding a specific client…
Note from the Field: Meditech 6.0 HL7 Integration
Jorge Grillo, who is CIO at Canton-Potsdam Hospital in Potsdam, NY, has been blogging on install Meditech 6.0. In his most excellent 11th installment (posted…
Job Titles for HL7 Engine Users
What job title or job description do you give someone who spends much of their time solving integration issues within a hospital setting? In my…
Supporting CDA in Clinical Applications, Part 2: XML and HTML Rendering
Software vendors in the healthcare space likely have interfaces in their systems that are capable of receiving HL7 2.x messages and processing that data through…
