Component 9; Unit 5: Health Data Interchange Standards
Description:
This unit introduces some recognized standards for data interchange between disparate systems. In particular, HL7 versions 2 and 3 are discussed.
Objectives:
- Understand the need to have data standards
- Understand the standards that are in place today, or are being adopted.
- Learn about HL7 standards and implementation
- Understand HL7 messaging standards and the basic HL7 v2.n transaction types
- Understand HL7 v3.0 messaging standards
- Learn about the HL7 v3 Reference Information Model (RIM)
- Understand what is different about HL7 v3 compared to v2.n
- Understand the HL7 v3 domains
Component 9; Unit 5; Lecture 5a comp9_unit5a_lecture_slides
Health Data Interchange Standards: HL7 v2.n
Component 9; Unit 5; Lecture 5b comp9_unit5b_lecture_slides
Health Data Interchange Standards: HL7 v3
Suggested Readings
Heath Level Seven International. Read more about HL7 including standards and how to implement. http://www.hl7.org/index.cfm
Ascend HL7 Interface Specification. Describes HL7 message standards for Hann’s On Software (HOS). http://www.hosinc.com/Products/Interfaces/interface_documentation.htm
HL7 ADT Message Overview. This article provides a simple overview of HL& ADT messages. http://knol.google.com/k/hl7-adt-message-overview#
DICOM. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine homepage. http://medical.nema.org/
IHE. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise homepage. http://www.ihe.net/
Standardization of Terminology. This article talks about the importance of creating a standard for terminology so that different healthcare organizations can share information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526413/?tool=pubmed
Information Week – Healthcare. Articles about information systems and security in the healthcare field. http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/index.jhtml” MACROBUTTON HtmlResAnchor http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/index.jhtml