Just as people from different countries with completely different native tongues are only able to communicate with each other if they can speak a common language, computer applications can only share information if they communicate with a common protocol. For people or computers to be able to share clinical data with one another, they must both: A group of healthcare computer systems users started developing the HL7 protocol in 1987 to create a common "language" that allows healthcare applications to share clinical data with each another. Over time the HL7 interoperability protocol became a nationally, internationally and globally accepted and accredited standard.
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HL7 News
International Healthcare Modelling SDO 30th Anniversary Plenary Meeting in Beijing, China
Friday, 9th September 2011
The 30th Anniversary Standards and Implementation Meeting of the International Healthcare Modelling Standards Development Organisation (IHMSDO) will be held in Beijing, China.
IHMSDO's CEO Rasmussen, speaking at the recent HIMSS AsiaPac event in Brisbane, Australia, expects over 1,100 developers, implementers and users to attend.
"I expect a similar number to attend by tele-presence, so we will have well over 2000 participants." said Rasmussen.
After the recent amalgamation of HL7 with DICOM and IHE, IHMSDO has significantly accelerated e-Health and Telehealth roll-outs globally.
IHMSDO will meet 11-16 September 2016 in Beijing, China.
HL7 International 25th Anniversary Plenary Meeting in San Diego, USA
Tuesday, 26th July 2011
The next Working Meeting, held in San Diego, USA, will be the 25th anniversary of the founding of Health Level 7.
During this time, HL7 has grown from a group of US implementers frustrated with an ever-increasing number of point-to-point interfaces to the leading authority for global healthcare IT standards.
While the scope of the first standard was limited to administration of patients, diagnostic laboratory reporting and billing, HL7 today covers all areas of healthcare including genomics.
The HL7 meeting in San Diego will be held from 11-16 September 2011.
Preparations for May HL7 International Working Meeting in Orlando, USA, under way
Saturday, 26th February 2011
The next Working Meeting of HL7 International, the leading authority for global healthcare IT standards, will be held May 15-20 in Orlando, Florida, USA. More than 50 Work Groups, Committees and Task Forces will meet to progress the HL7 V2.x, CDA, V3 and EHR Standards.
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