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 ...
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 ...
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 this week), he discussed two interesting points about integration: One challenge for us right now is getting the 6.x ...
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 opinion it's pretty telling to see what titles the staff desires -- often a mix of two concepts. Specifically, a typical HL7-aware, ...
Meaningful Use’s Impact on Interoperability: Analysis of the Interim Final Rule (IFR)
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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