Health Level Seven (HL7) Standard

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A Health Level Seven (HL7) Standard is a Clinical Data Standard that is a data transfer standard managed by Health Level Seven International.



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  • (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7 Retrieved:2021-11-29.
    • Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the OSI model. The HL7 standards are produced by Health Level Seven International, an international standards organization, and are adopted by other standards issuing bodies such as American National Standards Institute and International Organization for Standardization.

      Hospitals and other healthcare provider organizations typically have many different computer systems used for everything from billing records to patient tracking. All of these systems should communicate with each other (or "interface") when they receive new information, or when they wish to retrieve information, but not all do so.

      HL7 International specifies a number of flexible standards, guidelines, and methodologies by which various healthcare systems can communicate with each other. Such guidelines or data standards are a set of rules that allow information to be shared and processed in a uniform and consistent manner. These data standards are meant to allow healthcare organizations to easily share clinical information. Theoretically, this ability to exchange information should help to minimize the tendency for medical care to be geographically isolated and highly variable. HL7 International considers the following standards to be its primary standards – those standards that are most commonly used and implemented: * Version 2.x Messaging Standard – an interoperability specification for health and medical transactions * Version 3 Messaging Standard – an interoperability specification for health and medical transactions * Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) – an exchange model for clinical documents, based on HL7 Version 3

    • Other HL7 standards/methodologies include:


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