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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

Philosophical and Structural Differences Between HL7 and X12

June 12, 2014 By Christopher Stehno 1 Comment

As health IT professionals, we read HL7 every day. Terms like PV1-5 and MSH-10 are second nature; however, ISA-15 and ST-3 might not be as familiar. These terms come from the X12 specification, which is heavily used in supply chain management (purchase orders, invoices, advance ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Basics, Integration Insights Tagged With: x12

Interface Documentation: Huh? What? Come Again?

September 20, 2011 By Sonal Patel Leave a Comment

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 install. Either way, you are looking for some information that helps you do your job (i.e., implementing, supporting, ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Standards, Integration Insights Tagged With: HL7, interface

What three things should everyone know about working with HL7 standards?

July 29, 2010 By Alex Lin Leave a Comment

What three things should everyone know about working with HL7 standards?

For system analysts and interface developers, testing and managing HL7 interface connections is a large part of day-to-day responsibilities. Therefore, knowing and understanding the nature of HL7 messages and its structure is helpful in optimizing the time and money invested in ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Integration, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Standards, HL7 Terms

Poll Results: Which HL7 Version Do You Encounter the Most in Your Interfacing Projects?

December 4, 2009 By Jeff Zinger Leave a Comment

Recently, a poll was posted here asking, "Which HL7 version do you encounter the most in your interfacing projects?" Not surprisingly, the results offer some insight into the challenges awaiting greater HL7 v3 implementation. Ninety percent of respondents indicated they most ...

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Filed Under: HL7 Basics, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards, Poll Results

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘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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