HL7 Launches New Membership Program and Webpage for Caregivers: Gives Doctors, Nurses and Other Clinicians a Say in the Development of EHRs

Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International, the global leader in developing interoperability standards for healthcare IT, today announced a pilot membership program and webpage to encourage clinician caregivers to participate in the process of developi…

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HL7 Offers Free Ambassador Webinar: Meaningful Use Stage 2 and HL7 Standards

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, will present a complimentary Ambassador webinar titled “Meaningful Use Stage 2 and HL…

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Is re-implementing 4 eGate interfaces within one day fast or slow?

I just got news that one of our integration partners managed to convert 4 eGate interfaces within 1 day. She did this: Without a product demonstration. Without any formal training other than our online documentation. Without calling our helpdesk once. Two of the interfaces were relatively simple, the other two were more complicated. While she [...]

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Health Level Seven International Project Supports the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Blue Button® Requirements

Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced a response to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) recent requi…

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Book your Iguana 5 training today

My team and I just published a small but important update to the iNTERFACEWARE website:  The ability to book and pay for your training sessions online! I know, I know — it’s probably not the most exciting website update ever, but for the dozens and dozens of people who are signing up every month for [...]

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HL7 Pilot Program to Provide Key Intellectual Property Free of Charge

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) announced today a pilot program to provide some of its key intellectual property free of charge. “HL7 is keeping its promise to lower the barriers to adoption of electronic health records by making portions of…

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Adoption of HL7 CDA to Connect Clinical Trial Data, EHRs: Technology to Support Patient Care, Speed Process from "Bench to Bedside"

LAS VEGAS, USA – Feb. 21, 2012 – Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) announced today a collaborative effort with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to use HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) in a unique way that solves the problem of…

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One Step Closer to Secure EHRs and mHealth: OMG and HL7 Announce Adoption of the hData Specification

February 15, 2012 – OMG®, in partnership with Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), today announced the adoption and availability of the hData Record Format and hData RESTful Transport specifications, a scalable electronic method for exchangin…

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Are you coming to HIMSS?

My team is so excited for HIMSS – which might have to do with the fact that it’s in Las Vegas – that they put together this very impressive and fun presentation.  Click the image below to see for yourself: it only takes a minute or two! As for the show, we’ve really pulled out [...]

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New Hope for Electronic Health Records

Introducing http://www.extormity.com/, the electronic health records mega-corporation dedicated to offering highly proprietary, difficult to customize and prohibitively expensive healthcare IT solutions. Extormity.com is SEEDIE certified.

The Ext…

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