HL7 and the Ringholm Effect
2016-Apr-14 06:09 PM | Filed in: safety & quality
HL7 messages are the lifeblood of electronic health communication in many settings in many countries. In the healthcare sector in Australia, for example, they are ubiquitous in hospital settings for notification of patient Admissions, Discharges and Transfers and they are ubiquitous in both hospital and primary care settings for reporting pathology results to the ordering […]
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Critical Safety Issue for the PCEHR
2012-Jan-24 08:04 AM | Filed in: exchange formats | pcehr
Australia is poised to produce a system of Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHRs) from July 2012, some 6 months from now. According to the recently published Concept of Operations, each person’s PCEHR will comprise a set of electronic documents, the majority of which are to be based on HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), in […]