HL7 (Health Level 7) is a collection of standards and proposals for healthcare-specific data exchange between computer applications. Considerable efforts are being invested by governments and industry to use HL7 as part of national health IT projects. Many claims are made on behalf of HL7 by its advocates. The goal of this blog is to investigate the merits of these claims, and to provide some needed independent perspective on the HL7 project.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Problems in UK Health IT Implementation Efforts
provides an interesting perspective on difficulties currently being faced by the National Programme for IT in the UK National Health Service, which has invested huge resources in the creation of a new national health IT system based on HL7 V3 messaging before the V3 standard itself has been properly tested (or indeed properly implemented).
A bit hesitant to reply on the HL7 v3 abuse site, just a question.
ReplyDeleteThere is a report (late reaction, sorry I was unaware of this side until now), from NHS delays of iSoft.
Can professor Smith provide us with insight how this iSoft thing in the real world relates to the HL7 v3 message standard for information about things?
For the time being anonymous.
This
ReplyDeletehttp://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1670
seems to suggest that difficulties in implementing HL7 V3 are indeed part of the problems iSoft has been facing.
BS