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Global HL7 Standards Ballot are OpenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HL7 Global is now balloting: Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Electronic Health Records, Version 3 Messaging, Version 3 Infrastructure and FoundationSpecifications, Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW), etc. All ballots are now open and scheduled to close on Thursday, April 30th, 2009. For more information on the ballot see http://tinyurl.com/c46o8j
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - April 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Registrations for HL7 Kyoto Working Meeting open!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The next HL7 Working Meeting will be in Kyoto, Japan, from May 10-15, 2009. The Working Meeting will be preceded by the International HL7 Implementation Conference 2009 (IHIC'09) where the latest reports on leading edge HL7 implemenations will be given. Register now!
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - March 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7 News, Tools and Resources Update now on Twitter!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The updates on HL7 News, Tools and Resources are now also on Twitter. Get immediate updates without having to visit web sites or track RSS feeds. Follow now!
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - March 1, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7 Working Meeting in Kyoto a Success - despite GEC and Swine Flu...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The International HL7 Working Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, was hailed by all participants as very successful. Although a number of corporations and parts of the US government still ban overseas travel, enough volunteers were able to travel to Kyoto to progress the various HL7 Standards in over 40 Work Groups. The sudden escalation of the swine influenza epidemic forced some delegations to cancel their attendance at the last minute and HL7 staff were quarantined by the Japanese health authorities... The HL7 community looks forward to the Plenary Meeting in September in Atlanta, USA, and the Meeting in Rio next May!
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - March 1, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Interoperability in the Real World...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In his "Health Interoperability" Blog, Ken Rubin writes about understanding and appreciating the value, the importance and the necessity of tooling in achieving health interoperability objectives. "When I speak to folks that are working in the trenches ... it becomes clear that it is all about the tooling." Read more ...
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - May 5, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Mirth V1.7.1 supports HL7 and DICOMEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The open source Mirth 1.7.1 interface engine now includes support for the Digital Imaging in Medicine (DiCOM) standard. Robust support for HL7 V2.x and V3, XML, EDI X12 and NCPDP have been a feature of Mirth in the past but DiCOM support is a natural extension for Mirth to provide system integrators and RIS and PACS vendors with a low-cost interoperability solution.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7 Comm V0.8 ReleasedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HL7 Comm is a robust HL7 communications client that can perform network communication, translation, file actions, logic and much more on HL7 messages.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - April 28, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Perl HL7 Toolkit UpdatedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Perl HL7 Toolkit has been updated to V0.74. The Toolkit provides simple but flexible HL7 protocol handling. It consists of a Perl API for manipulating HL7 messages, an implementation of a server for developing HL7 capable applications in Perl and a queue daemon for polling non-HL7 queues, like database, filesystems, etc. It also translates messages to and from HL7.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - January 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Connecting Health HHL7 WorkbenchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The ConHHL7 Workbench allows you to define the grammar, test messages and easily incorpate HL7 into your application. Use the .Net Utility Class or the ActiveX/Com interfaces. The Workbench is based on XML technology, hides most of the inner workings of HL7 and is cliamed to be fast and easy to use.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 3, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Connecting Health HHL7 WorkbenchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The ConHHL7 Workbench allows you to define the grammar, test messages and easily incorpate HL7 into your application. Use the .Net Utility Class or the ActiveX/Com interfaces. The Workbench is based on XML technology, hides most of the inner workings of HL7 and is claimed to be fast and easy to use.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 3, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Microsoft releases BizTalk Server 2006 R2 upgrade with HL7 and RFID supportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 adds a device abstraction layer enabling it to record information from RFID systems and supporting linkages to core supply chain processes. R2 also provides out-of-the-box support for the HL7 and HIPAA healthcare standards.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - September 23, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Microsoft releases BizTalk Server 2006 R2 upgrade with HL7 and RFID supportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 adds a device abstraction layer enabling it to record information from RFID systems and supporting linkages to core supply chain processes. R2 also provides out-of-the-box support for the HL7 and HIPAA healthcare standards.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - September 13, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Looking for an Open-Source .NET HL7 Parser?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The best option appears to be "NHapi", a new port of the popular HAPI Java HL7 parser. Although the project does not seem to be very active and lacks documentation, the code appears to be solid. Thankfully, Ashley Tate (Alpharetta USA) has now created documentation and help packages for NHAPI.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - September 8, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Looking for an Open-Source .NET HL7 Parser?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The best option appears to be "NHapi", a new port of the popular HAPI Java HL7 parser. Although the project does not seem to be very active and lacks documentation, the code appears to be solid. Thankfully, Ashley Tate (Alpharetta USA) has now created documentation and help packages for NHAPI.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - September 4, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

How can HL7 and XML Formats co-exist in Clinical Messaging?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While most HL7 interfaces today are using the HL7 2.x encoded format, the CDA, CCR and CCD standards are choosing XML as their message format. This creates some interesting questions about how these two approaches can work together.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - August 11, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

How can HL7 and XML Formats co-exist in Clinical Messaging?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While most HL7 interfaces today are using the HL7 2.x encoded format, the CDA, CCR and CCD standards are choosing XML as their message format. This creates some interesting questions about how these two approaches can work together.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - August 10, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7 opens Ballots for V2.5.1, V3 and CDA R2 StandardsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The ballots for HL7 V2.5.1 and V3 Messaging and Clinical Document Architecture R2 for the September 2007 ballot cycle are now open.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - August 10, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

ChainBuilder Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) supports HL7Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ChainBuilder ESB supports the creation of new HL7 message definitions and the modification of existing definitions. ChainBuilder ESB's HL7 Editor creates integration components for HL7 messages for use by the ChainBuilder ESB Parser Service Engine. ChainBulder ESB is an open source product.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - August 1, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Chameleon V4.1 and Iguana V3.2.155 have been released by iNTERFACEWAREEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chameleon is a widely used HL7 toolkit that has been deployed in thousands of sites since 1997. Iguana is an HL7 interface engine that is powered by Chameleon.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - July 4, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7.org Releases Newest Standard: Version 2.5.1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Level 7 has announced the release of HL7 V2.5.1. Additional fields were added in V2.5.1 to the Observation/Result (OBX) segment of the Standard to support regulations that require clinical laboratories to include in each laboratory report the name and address of the performing lab and the name of the lab’s medical director. The Observation Request (OBR) and Common Order (ORC) segments of the standard have been updated to comply with the ELINCS standard that requires clinical laboratories to capture the association between a test not included in the original order but performed due to the result of another test.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - June 16, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

APELON Vocabulary Server now Open SourceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Apelon has announced that it has placed its Distributed Terminology System (DTS) software in SourceForge as an open source project. DTS assists in the management, integration and deployment of structured medical terminology.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - May 6, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

ChainBuilder V1.1 provides Eclipse-based support for HL7Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ChainBuilder V1.1 a set of visual tools and runtime components that implement an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The visual tools consist of Eclipse-based GUI plugins and are JBI compliant. ChainBuilder V1.1 now supprts HL7 V2.1 - V2.4
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - April 9, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

XRef XML Creation ToolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you spend quite a bit of time crafting the XML to load data into the databases, here is a tool that will do all of the heavy lifting. It is pretty self explanatory: you create a list of application types, instances where you associate it with the particular application type, create the IDXrefs and then create the elements.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - April 3, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

First HL7 Ruby-on-Rails Library releasedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mark Guzman has released the first public Ruby-on-Rails HL7 library. The library can parse or generate HL7 messages, but currently only supports HL7 2.x. Support for HL7 V3 is to be added in a future version.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - April 2, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Australia's NEHTA approves HL7 as National StandardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To allow healthcare computing systems to reliably and safely communicate with each other, the National E-Health Transition Authority in Australia has officially approved the HL7 family of standards. NEHTA's CEO Dr Ian Rienecke and HL7 Australia Chairman Mr Klaus Veil both welcomed the decision and expressed their desire to cooperate in implementing this national direction.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - February 1, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

The Link between HL7 and Open Source SoftwareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Peer collaboration is one of the cornerstones of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The characteristics and governance models of the Linux, Wikipedia, Flickr and Slashdot communities and others have been extensively studied and parallels have been observed. So how could HL7 utilise peer collaboration?
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - February 1, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

First Eclipse-based HL7 V3 Message Development ToolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The international HL7 Tooling Collaborative (HTC) has delivered the first component of a suite of Eclipse-based message development and validation tools for the new HL7 V3 standard.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - January 30, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7 to adopt ELINCSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Level Seven (HL7) will begin a process to adopt and maintain the EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Specification (ELINCS). The assimilation of ELINCS into HL7 will simplify the EHR standards environment, making it easier to implement standards based EHR interoperability.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 22, 2006 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Informatica Acquires ItemfieldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration software, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Itemfieldat for approximately U$55 million. Itemfield is a provider of midddleware / interface technology that enables automaitc translation and access to unstructured and semi-structured data to achive interoperability.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 18, 2006 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

MIRTH HL7 Interface DevicesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WebREach, Inc, has released Health Information Exchange devices based on the MIRTH open source HL7 middleware. Each device comes pre-loaded with the latest version of MIRTH developed and configured specifically for its hardware. The devices integrate quickly and securely into existing healthcare environments.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 10, 2006 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

New Blogs on HL7 and InteroperabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The HL7 Tools and Resources web site now includes a significant number of blogs covering topics and aspects relevant to HL7 and healthcare systems interoperability.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 8, 2006 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

HL7 Comm - a open-source HL7 Integration Tool written in JavaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HL7 Comm is a stand-alone open-source HL7 integration tool written in Java that allows sending and receiving HL7 messages over a TCP/IP MLLP connection. It offers a simple mode for testing and a configured mode for running as a full-fledged integration client, either with or without a GUI interface.
Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - October 28, 2006 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info