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Health Level Seven® Standard Version 2.6 An Application Protocol for Electronic Data Exchange in Healthcare Environments Return to Main Index |
 ANSI/HL7 V2.6-2007 October 12, 2007 |
This document contains the specifications for Version 2.6 of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Standard for electronic data exchange in all healthcare environments, with special emphasis on inpatient acute care facilities (i.e., hospitals). It summarizes the work of a committee of healthcare providers (i.e., users), vendors and consultants established in March 1987 on the occasion of a conference hosted by Dr. Sam Schultz at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Its participants, who represent users as well as vendors and a wide variety of other segments in the international healthcare market, share a common goal of simplifying the implementation of interfaces between computer applications from different, and often competing, vendors. This committee, which subsequently became known as the HL7 Working Group, endeavors to standardize the format and protocol for the exchange of certain key sets of data among healthcare computer application systems. Working Group Meetings are held each year during January, May and September in a variety of locations. In recognition of our international contingency, one of the three yearly meetings is held in an international location. At present, HL7 sanctioned national groups exist outside of the United States, including Argentina, Australia, Austia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, The United Kingdom and Uruguay.
HL7 Version 2.6 represents HL7’s latest development efforts to the line of Version 2 Standards that date back to 1989. Version 2.6 represents a major revision to Versions 2.5 and 2.5.1, refining and updating existing messages and adding new messages and domains all based upon proposals submitted and accepted by the HL7 membership.
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Implementation Notes for HL7 V2.x Users | Word | ||
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Chapter 1: Introduction | Word | ||
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Chapter 2: Control | Word | ||
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Chapter 2A: Control - Data Types | Word | ||
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Chapter 2B: Control - Conformance | Word | ||
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Chapter 3: Patient Administration | Word | ||
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Chapter 4: Order Entry | Word | ||
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Chapter 5: Query | Word | ||
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Chapter 6: Financial Management | Word | ||
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Chapter 7: Observation Reporting | Word | ||
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Chapter 8: Master Files | Word | ||
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Chapter 9: Medical Records/Information Management | Word | ||
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Chapter 10: Scheduling | Word | ||
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Chapter 11: Patient Referral | Word | ||
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Chapter 12: Patient Care | Word | ||
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Chapter 13: Clinical Laboratory Automation | Word | ||
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Chapter 14: Application Management | Word | ||
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Chapter 15: Personnel Management | Word | ||
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Chapter 16: eClaims | Word | ||
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Chapter 17: Materials Management | Word | ||
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Appendix A: Data Definition Tables | Word | ||
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Appendix B: Lower Layer Protocols | Word | ||
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Appendix C: BNF Message Descriptions | Word | ||
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Appendix D: Glossary | Word | ||
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Appendix E: Index | Word | ||
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HL7 Version 2: XML Encoding Syntax, Release 1 | Word | ||
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Implementation Notes for HL7 V2.x Users | Word | ||
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