Introduction Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website [1], approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use the patient ID, facility ID and earliest date in the record to identify a unique visit. If the earliest dates in records with the same patient ID and facility ID occur within the sa...

The workshop is organized by HL7 and its affiliates to present and to discuss HL7's activities for providing international standards and specifications to enable advanced semantically interoperable eHealth and pHealth solutions, adaptable to national health systems through localization. The workshop especially focuses on the multi-disciplinary structure of HL7 and its liaisons with internationa...

The paper shortly analyses the HL7 communication standards for resolving the gap between them by developing a set of ontologies reflecting the concepts and relationships which is exemplified with the incompatible HL7 versions 2.x and 3. Bridging between the different ontologies is performed by introducing a reference ontology to which a mapping is defined. The paper discusses problems and solut...

Objectives To explore the challenges Health Information Technology (HIT) vendors face to satisfy the requirements for Meaningful Use (MU) and Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) of reportable diseases to the public health departments in Kentucky. Methodology A survey was conducted of Health Information Exchange (HIE) vendors in Kentucky through the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE...

HL7 Version 3 offers a semantically robust method for healthcare interoperability but has been criticized as overly complex to implement. This paper reviews initiatives to simplify HL7 Version 3 messaging and presents a novel approach based on semantic mapping. Based on user-defined definitions, precise transforms between simple and full messages are automatically generated. Systems can be inte...

Many healthcare information technology (HIT) groups have demonstrated a growing interest in PHRs. Citing some examples of this interest among many are HIMSS’ inauguration of a PHR Steering Committee in 2006; HL7 developing PHR related use cases in 2007; The Markle Foundation convening a group of industry experts regarding PHRs in 2007; CCHIT assuming the task of certifying PHRs, with a major fo...

Seamlessly sharing and using healthcare data as intended among distributed healthcare information systems is difficult. The adoption and adherence to clear and unambiguous standards can help manage this complexity. Well-defined standards, and conformance to those standards, provide the foundation for reliable, functioning, usable, and interoperable healthcare information systems. Recent federal...

S. Abhyankar, B. Therrell, R. Eaton, C. Cuthbert, J. Ojodu, S. Copeland, R. Goodwin, C. McDonald 1 National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD, National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center, Austin, TX, New England Newborn Screening Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Jamaica Plain, MA, Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA, Association ...