Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Health Level Seven Announces Upcoming Release of the greenCDA™ Implementation Guide

Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced that the highly anticipated greenCDA™ Implementation Guide is scheduled to be released in March. The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA™) is at the core of the requirement for Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records. It supports continuity of care and re-use of clinical data for public health reporting, quality monitoring, patient safety and clinical trials. greenCDA maintains the full utility of CDA while making it easier to implement. It is a simplified XML for CDA templates.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

ONC Announces New Project to Harmonize Standards that Support Meaningful Use of EHR Systems

Today the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the launch of an industry project to consolidate and harmonize required health information exchange specifications that support meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) systems. The project, called the "HL7/IHE Health Story Implementation Guide Consolidation Project," is a collaboration of Health Level Seven (HL7) International, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) and the Health Story Project. Working through the HL7 standards development organization, volunteers will consolidate exchange standards for eight common types of clinical documents along with the HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standard into one comprehensive implementation package that establishes a foundation for health information exchange.

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

New Site for HL7 Messaging

A new site for HL7 Message development is being built HL7 Messaging for the users of Health level 7 messaging.

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