HL7 Reference Information Model Becomes ISO Standard
Health Level Seven (HL7), one of the world’s most prolific healthcare standards developers, today announced the August 3, 2006 publication of ISO/HL7 21731:2006 – Health Informatics – HL7 Version 3 –...
View ArticleHealth Level Seven’s Chinese Affiliate Publishes Translation of Version 2.4...
HL7 China has announced that it has translated Version 2.4 of the HL7 messaging standard and is now making it available to the Chinese market. HL7 China, which was established in May 2000, joins other...
View ArticleHealth Level Seven’s ANSI-Approved Structured Product Labeling (SPL): A Model...
Health Level Seven’s new Structured Product Labeling (SPL) Release 1.0 standard, which received approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in August 2004, is a model standard that...
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JSON – A natural standard
What is JSON? It stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is rapidly becoming the standard for transmitting data between applications. It is like XML but a lot less heavy weight. It is much easier...
View ArticleWhy Electronic Attachments will become an Industry Standard Solution
New technologies from the cloud to virtual assistants are transforming the way provider offices operate. As the health care industry strives for greater efficiencies and adopts sustainable measures,...
View ArticleHealth Level Seven and America’s Blood Centers Announce Plan to Extend...
Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, and America’s Blood Centers, a national...
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HL7 RIM has done its job on HL7 V3. Now it’s time to undermine the V2 standard
I am noticing changes introduced in V2.7 of the HL7 standard – described by one Asian HL7 expert as ‘subtle, insidious and dangerous’ – which consist in the insertion of failed RIM strategies into the...
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Standard for sending HL7 2.X over HTTP
I had the pleasure of catching up with James Agnew from the University Health Network on Thursday. James is one of principle maintainers of the popular open source HAPI Java toolkit. He and the rest...
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The Value of Building Out a Standard Module
If you are a vendor that is planning on doing dozens of interfaces with Iguana with a team of people, it’s worth spending a little bit of time thinking it through. First of all, it’s a good idea to...
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