eLearning Initiative: Introduction to HL7

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eLearning Initiative Introduction to HL7

• Joint development of Education and PIC Committees

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What will I learn?

• What is HL7?
• What are the standards HL7 creates?
• Who are the participants?
• How do HL7 standards get developed?
• How do I get involved?
• Where do I go for additional information?
• How are meetings organized?

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What is HL7?

• Insert agreed to description which leads to
  mission and strategies.

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HL7 Mission

• HL7 is an international community of healthcare
  subject matter experts and information scientists
  collaborating to create standards for the
  exchange, management and integration of
  electronic healthcare information. HL7 promotes
  the use of such standards within and among
  healthcare organizations to increase the
  effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare
  delivery for the benefit of all.

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Strategies

• HL7's Strategies
• Develop coherent, extendible standards that
  permit structured, encoded health care
  information of the type required to support
  patient care, to be exchanged between computer
  applications while preserving meaning.
• Develop a formal methodology to support the
  creation of HL7 standards from the HL7 Reference
  Information Model (RIM).
• Educate the healthcare industry, policy makers,
  and the general public concerning the benefits of
  healthcare information standardization generally
  and HL7 standards specifically.
• Promote the use of HL7 standards world-wide
  through the creation of HL7 International
  Affiliate organizations, which participate in
  developing HL7 standards and which localize HL7
  standards as required.
• Stimulate, encourage and facilitate domain
  experts from healthcare industry stakeholder
  organizations to participate in HL7 to develop
  healthcare information standards in their area of
  expertise.
• Collaborate with other standards development
  organizations and national and international
  sanctioning bodies (e.g. ANSI and ISO), in both
  the healthcare and information infrastructure
  domains to promote the use of supportive and
  compatible standards.
• Collaborate with healthcare information
  technology users to ensure that HL7 standards
  meet real-world requirements, and that
  appropriate standards development efforts are
  initiated by HL7 to meet emergent requirements.

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Interoperability Goal

• Text needed

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International Goal

• Text to be provided by International Team

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International Mentoring Committee

• Purpose
• IMC Links/contacts
• Success Stories
• Affiliate page link

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Who is HL7?

• Affiliates careful to work for future
  organization structure.
• Corporate Members
• Benefactors etc
• Individual Members
• Staff
• RWJ types

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Membership

• Obtain high level (not requiring constant
  modification) statistics about membership of
  companies and individuals.

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Involvement

• WGMs
• Conference Calls
• Standards development
• HL7 business/infrastructure
• ..

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Work Group Meetings

• Describe the activities at WGMs i.e. business,
  ballot reconciliation, standards creation, etc.

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Staff

• Pull in the current staff information from the
  website.

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ANSI, SDOs

• Text describing the role of each in relation to
  HL7.
• ANSI
• X12
• NCPDP

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Alliances, MOUs, Agreements

• Define Alliances, MOU, and Agreements, where and
  how they are relevant.
• Obtain a list of major ones with a link to all,
  or all if the list is manageable, with brief
  summary of relationship.

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How are standards developed?

• Insert a picture of process.

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Describe the picture

• Text to be developed.

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Technical Committees, SIGS, Technical Steering
Committee
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New Organization

• Text needed here

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Board Appointed Committees

• Pull in the current list of board appointed
  committees from the HL7 website.
• Text describing need, term, reasoning, etc.

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Committee Processes

• DMP
• List Servers
• Wiki use
• Text describing how one find out how a particular
  committee functions and uses the above?

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Projects

• What defines a project?
• How do they start?
• Display current list of projects from the list on
  the website. Alternately, describe a few
  examples and provide a link to current list.

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Why get involved in HL7?

• Learn about HL7 Standards
• Write HL7 Standards
• Influence Direction
• Other

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Marketing Page

• Marketing Committee to input to text here.

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Where do I go from here?

• Develop an example of type of person coming to
  the site i.e. I have joined an IT department for
  laboratory vendor.
• Questions to answer with guidance text.

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HL7 Website

• Link plus description of where to start. This
  should address new website design and links.

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Getting Involved

• Determine target committee (s)
• Sign up for the list serve (s) Link to list serve
  signup
• Conference call schedule (s) Link to conference
  call schedule calendar.
• Register for the next meeting Link to brochure
  and registration page for the next WGM.

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Contacting Committees

• Co-chair
• Use of list serve
• Other

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What if I cannot attend meetings?

• Recruitment text to the value of other
  participation.

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Links Page

• Consolidated list of links referenced in the
  presentation.
• Any additional links that may be appropriate.