HL7 Experts & HL7 Consultants

The International HL7 Consultants and HL7 Experts are an international group of associated HL7 and Health Information Technology experts and consultants that provide high-level expertise to clients in government, industry and healthcare organizations.

The HL7 Consultants listed below provide information, give expert assistance and undertake projects on a comprehensive collection of standards, messaging tools and message engine expertise to support HL7 users constructing EDI interface messaging for the exchange of medical and clinical information to establish interoperability and message connectivity between healthcare information systems.

Asia-Pacific
HL7 Systems & Services (Sydney, Australia)	HL7 Systems & Services is a leading Australian consultancy specialising on healthcare system interoperability and HL7 Messaging. HL7S&S has a comprehensive track record in successful projects for Australian Federal and State health agencies, private hospital groups and other healthcare organisations. Major clients include the World Bank - Ministry of Health Bulgaria, the Australian Dept. of Health & Ageing, National eHealth Transition Authority, etc.	Tel: +61 412 746 457 e-mail:
Europe
Nova-Pro (The Netherlands)	Project Management and HL7 Consultancy Nova Pro has been actively involved in most of the HL7 V3 design and implementation projects in the Netherlands to date.  Managing consultant Tom de Jong has become an expert in practical application of V3, both in the Netherlands and abroad.  Nova Pro can provide support in the analysis, design and implementation phases for any interfacing project in healthcare. We are proud to have been a partner to government, healthcare providers and vendors in achieving their interfacing goals!	Tel: +31 6 53 255291 e-mail:
Oemig HealthCare Communications Consulting (Germany)	Frank Oemig studied computer science at the universities of Dortmund and Bochum and specialises on the development of hospital information systems.  He is a founding member of the HL7 Germany TC and IHE Germany.  He is an active contributor to the international HL7 community and serves as a co-chair of the HL7 Implementation & Conformance Working Group.  Oemig is the creator of the HL7 Database which contains the meta-information related to the HL7 standard.	Tel: +49 208 4988877 e-mail:
Ringholm (Germany)	Ringholm is a leading European consultancy in the field of messaging standards and systems integration in healthcare IT. We provide HL7 training and consultancy (V2, V2 and CDA), both for individual healthcare providers or software vendors as well as for National Healthcare Infrastructure Networks (NHINs). Major clients include: NICTIZ (the Dutch NHIN organization), NIKT (a Norwegian NHIN initiative) as well as these organizations	Tel: +49 700 74644656 e-mail:
America
Shafarman Consulting, Inc. (USA)	Shafarman Consulting uses standard information models, such as the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) and the associated bindings of standard terminologies to understand and resolve interoperability issues.  Encouraging and enabling the adoption of healthcare information standards that will support regional, national and international cross-enterprise sharing of healthcare data without loss of meaning is also a major focus. Principal Mark Shafarman MS BA has been a member of HL7 for over 20 years and was its Chairman 2004-05.	Tel: +1 510 593 3483 e-mail:
Eastern Informatics (USA)	Eastern Informatics provides expert advice on HL7, the IHE Technical Framework, clinical and administrative interoperation, data quality and interface architecture. Major clients include the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Northrop Grumman and Kaiser Permanente, USA.	Tel: +1 240 351 5908 e-mail:
Klein Consulting, Inc. (USA)	Klein Consulting provides expert advice on Concept Representation, Clinical Database design, heterogeneous system integration, vocabulary mapping and terminology services, identifier management and custom research databases.  HL7 Version 2.x education and testing, including expertise in the Messaging Workbench tools.  HL7 Version 3 education, including datatypes. Major clients include the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US National Library of Medicine and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (US and Canada).	Tel: +1 631 924 6922 e-mail:

Recommended HL7 Books:

Introduction to HL7 V2.x Messaging (2nd Edition) - a very popular introductory book

HL7 V2.x Messaging Study Guide - the Study Guide to the above textbook.

Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED - Healthcare depends on the two leading standards HL7 and SNOMED CT for functional and semantic interoperability. Tim is one of the most experienced teachers of both HL7 V3 and SNOMED CT.

HL7 CDA: the Missing Link in Healthcare IT - an important article from "Health Management Technology"

Managing Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Executives - the title says it all...

E-Health Care Information Systems: An Introduction for Students and Professionals - excellent

Verification Results for IT Standards: HL7 - a reader focussing on the formal verification of standards

More HL7 Books and Manuals to learn the secrets of Health Level 7.

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