HL7/DICOM/IHE Training, consultancy & whitepapers from RingholmWhitepapers (and other things) related to systems integration in healthcare IT in Europe. This covers healthcare messaging standards such as HL7, DICOM, IHE and SCIPHOX. Most pages are in English, this is however a mixed language feed.The HL7 Interoperability Conference - IHIC 2008- May 30, 2008 In October 2008, another IHIC conference will be held. IHIC is the "International HL7 Interoperability Conference" aimed at those that use HL7 standards. Not those that develop HL7 standards (there are other meetings for that purpose), but aimed at implementers....http://www.ringholm.de/column/HL7_ihic_2008_crete.htm New features of HL7 version 2.6: a whitepaper- May 27, 2008 HL7 version 2.6 has been published in April 2007. A number of new events, segments, messages and two entirely new chapters have been added in HL7 version 2.6 (chapters 16 -Claims and Reimbursement- and 17 -Materials Management-)....http://www.ringholm.de/docs/00720_en.htm OIDs for use in European HL7 artefacts: a whitepaper- May 26, 2008 HL7 Version 3 artefacts use OIDs (unique Object IDentifiers, an ISO standard) to identify coding schemes and identifier namespaces. OIDs can be allocated by any organisation using a unique OID root. A single message can use OIDs from various sources and a single scheme can be identified by more than one OID (e.g. by an OID from more than one organisation). Once issued an OID is never withdrawn and always identifies the same scheme or object....http://www.ringholm.de/docs/00900_en.htm HL7 creates a RIM Based Application Architecture (RIMBAA) group- May 18, 2008 During the recent HL7 working group meeting (WGM) in Phoenix a proposal was accepted to create a RIM Based Application Architecture (RIMBAA) working group. It will provide a joint forum for HL7 members who are interested in, or are in the process of creating, RIM based applications andor databases....http://www.ringholm.de/column/hl7_RIM_based_application_architecture.htm HL7 v3 Training in 2008 - Berlin, Utrecht and Stockholm- May 16, 2008 An overview of HL7 version 3 and the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)... Implementation aspects of HL7 version3...http://www.ringholm.de/en/training.htm?m=7 Notes from the HL7 WGM in Phoenix- May 8, 2008 HL7 Working Group Meetings (WGM) are held three times a year and aim to support the development process of the HL7 standards. The HL7 WGM of May 2008 took place in Phoenix (Arizona, USA). This column contains some generic comments about WGMs in general as well as some personal observations related to the highlights of the Phoenix WGM....http://www.ringholm.de/column/hl7_wgm_phoenix_may_2008.htm Germany embraces CDA eReferral document specification- May 2, 2008 At the conhIT (the German software-in-healthcare conference) it was announced that the German national healthcare infrastructure will create a CDA implementation guide for referral and discharge letters. The implementation guide will be based on an existing one created by the VHitG, the German vendor organization of software applications in healthcare. This column contains an interview with a representative of Siemens, one of the vendors involved in the national infrastructure as well as in...http://www.ringholm.de/column/germany_embraces_hl7_cda_ereferral.htm |