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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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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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- by eminent expert Keith Boone
provides clear and easy-to-use CDA implementation guidance with numerous examples. The reader will learn not only how to implement the CDA standard, but also to understand its idioms and to "speak" the CDA language.
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the most popular HL7 V2.x Messaging introductory textbook.
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the Study Guide to the above textbook.
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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.
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an important article from "Health Management Technology".
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the title says it all!
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