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HL7 ADT Q&A with Dave Shaver

July 2, 2014 By Dave Shaver Leave a Comment

Recently, I received a question regarding the HL7 ADT message and thought that it, along with the answer, warranted a larger audience. Question: Is there a national standard to what the baseline structure of an ADT (A28, A31) message should include? Are there national ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Standards, HL7 Basics, HL7 FHIR, HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards, HL7 Terms, Integration Insights Tagged With: HL7, HL7 FHIR

Health Standards Community Membership Archetypes: Who uses HL7?

August 6, 2013 By Dave Shaver 4 Comments

Health Standards Community Membership Archetypes: Who uses HL7?

One of the largest HL7 policy shifts I’ve seen in 20 years within the HL7 community is the decision to release much of the HL7 intellectual property (IP) at no cost. During the past year I’ve been a member of the HL7 Board Membership Taskforce studying how to rework membership ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Integration, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards Tagged With: dave shaver, hl7 international, hl7 membership, standards development

Note from the Field: Meditech 6.0 HL7 Integration

September 6, 2011 By Dave Shaver Leave a Comment

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 this week), he discussed two interesting points about integration: One challenge for us right now is getting the 6.x ...

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Job Titles for HL7 Engine Users

July 5, 2011 By Dave Shaver 3 Comments

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 opinion it's pretty telling to see what titles the staff desires -- often a mix of two concepts. Specifically, a typical HL7-aware, ...

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Meaningful Use’s Impact on Interoperability: Analysis of the Interim Final Rule (IFR)

January 1, 2010 By Dave Shaver Leave a Comment

John D. Halamka (CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess MC and Harvard Medical School) provides excellent summary of the IFR: "The rule is the right mixture of harmonization and compromise. Not every stakeholder will be happy with it, but it is good enough. It moves us all forward toward ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Standards, Meaningful Use

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‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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