How do HL7ers communicate?

The HL7 community is spread far and wide across the globe. Keeping in touch is not so easy - and can lead to stupendously high phone bills.

For some years now, the free Skype phone service has provided some relief. Most HL7ers use Skype for phone calls and conferences - the built-in "IM Chat" allows communicating across time zones. In recent times, "chat groups" are allowing teams of HL7 Standards developers to continuously keep in touch and weave content threads that allow all participants to track work across continents and time zones.

The Skype User Guide provides an Introduction and helps exploiting Skype's advanced features.

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HL7 CDA R2 Education Seminar

NEHTA in cooperation with HL7 Australia is holding a CDA education seminar on 5th December 2007 in Brisbane.

This seminar will be held in conjunction with two other concurrent e-health sessions:

"Web Services for e-Health – an Introduction"
"Identity Management in an e-Health Environment - Introducing the Technologies"

For more details & registration, go to www.slatteryit.com.au/nehta_tes07.html

Registrations for the CDA event have been brisk, so register asap.

PS: A copy of the CDA R2 Standard will be provided to participants!

HL7 Australia Seminar

HL7 Australia is holding a two-day seminar on HL7 Acknowledgement Processes, Coding Systems and Terminologies, Conformance Testing and Use of DataTypes.

Other issues that will be covered are IHE, Referral and Discharge, Archetypes in V2.x Messages and Digital Signatures in V2.x Messages.

For more details go to www.HL7.org.au/2007-MEL.htm.

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HL7 Tools and Resources - making life easier for Implementers!

Welcome to the HL7 Tools and Resources blog!

This is the place to look for answers about tools, resources and assistance to implement HL7 healthcare systems computer interfaces.

To get started, read the HL7 Introduction at www.HL7.com.au/FAQ.htm.

Then look though (or search) this blog for useful info...