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Health Level Seven, abbreviated to HL7, is a range of global standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative health data between applications with the aim to improve patient outcomes and health system performance. The HL7 standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the Open Systems Interconnection model.
Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a non-profit ANSI-accredited standards development organization that develops standards that provide for global health data interoperability. The 2.x versions of the standards are the most commonly used in the world.
The standard describes data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) health-care standards organization.
The HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) is an XML-based markup standard which provides a library of CDA formatted documents. Clinical documents using the C-CDA standards are exchanged billions of times annually in the United States.
Since December 2016, CDISC standards are mandatory for submission to US FDA. [2] [3] CDISC standards are harmonized through a model that is also a HL7 standard and is the process to becoming an ISO/CEN standard.
The HL7 standards development organisation is based in America and oversees the development of the HL7 standard. HL7 current work programme includes: HL7 Version 2 (including HL7 V2.1, HL7 V2.2, HL7 V2.3, HL7 V2.3.1, HL7 V2.4 and HL7 V2.5) HL7 Version 3 (including HL7 Reference Information Model) electronic health record
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an XML-based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange. In November 2000, HL7 published Release 1.0. The organization published Release 2.0 with its "2005 Normative Edition". [1]
CCOW is the primary standard protocol in healthcare to facilitate a process called "context management". Context management is the process of using particular "subjects" of interest (e.g., user, patient, clinical encounter, charge item, etc.) to virtually link disparate applications so that the end-user sees them operate in a unified, cohesive way.