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Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLAIMS Additional Information Specification 0001: Ambulance Service Attachment Informative Attachments
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=INFORMATIVE Additional Information Specification 0002: Emergency Department Attachment Informative
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLAIMS Additional Information Specification 0003: Rehabilitation Services Attachment Informative Attachments
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLAIMS Additional Information Specification 0004: Clinical Reports Attachment Informative Attachments
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Category=LABORATORY,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLAIMS Additional Information Specification 0005: Laboratory Results Attachment Informative Attachments
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Category=PHARMACY,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLAIMS Additional Information Specification 0006: Medications Attachment Informative Attachments
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=ARDEN Additional Information Specification 0007: Children's Preventive Health Services Attachment Informative Arden Syntax
Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLAIMS Additional Information Specification 0009: Patient Information Unspecified Content Attachment Informative Attachments
Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=Standard Reference Materials Additional Information Specification: Implementation Guide

This implementation guide describes how to prepare documents for various attachment transactions.
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS,Category=TOOLS All Eight Versions Access Database
Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ARDEN Arden Syntax v2.0 Normative Arden Syntax
Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ARDEN Arden Syntax v2.1 Normative Arden Syntax
Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,wg=ARDEN Arden Syntax v2.1 - Pocket Guide Normative Arden Syntax
Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ARDEN Arden Syntax v2.5 Normative Arden Syntax
Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ARDEN Arden Syntax V2.6 Normative Arden Syntax
Section=6,Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ARDEN Arden Syntax V2.7

The HL7 International Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Modules (MLMs) is an ANSI-approved American National Standard language for encoding medical knowledge and representing and sharing that knowledge among personnel, information systems and institutions. The Arden Syntax for Medica...

Normative Arden Syntax
Family=CDA,Category=Standard Reference Materials Attachments Starter Set

Example Additional Information Specifications (AIS) Starter Set
Section=7,Family=CCOW,Category=Standard Reference Materials CCOW Best Practices

This document provides a collection of non-normative recommended best practices, descriptions of common mistakes, and implementation reminders for application developers to consider when creating CCOW-compliant applications. The content of this docume...

Family=CCOW,Category=Standard Reference Materials CCOW Test Cases

Non-normative test cases provided by Sentillion for HL7 CCOW users.
Family=CDA,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved CDA® Release 1 Normative
Section=1,Section=3,Family=CDA,Category=HHSFR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE CDA® Release 2

The HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of "clinical documents" for the purpose of exchange between healthcare providers and patients. It defines a clinical docume...

Normative Structured Documents
Section=3,Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,wg=CLAIMS,wg=CLAIMS,wg=ARDEN,wg=CLAIMS,wg=CLAIMS Claims Attachments

Claims Attachments goal is to support the implementation of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for submitting additional information required for processing a healthcare claim. It is also likely that much of this HL7 product will also support other ...

Arden Syntax, Attachments
Family=CDA,Category=Specification Errata,Category=Standard Reference Materials Claims Attachments Errata and Post-Publication Findings
Family=CDA,Category=Standard Reference Materials Claims Attachments FAQs

Claims Attachments questions and answers, gathered through various public presentations circa 2003-2008. Teams within the HL7 ASIG and X12N WG9 formulated the answers. Version 1.2 contains new questions and answers to reflect current information (e.g., what was in the NPRM, curren...

Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Category=Standard Reference Materials Claims Attachments White Paper (2004)

This white paper has been prepared to provide a plain language overview of the recommendation for Healthcare Claims Attachments, expected to be proposed under HIPAA in 2004. Within this document are overviews of the background of this initiative, as well as a defini...

Family=CDA,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Category=Standard Reference Materials Claims Attachments White Paper (2008)

This white paper has been prepared to provide a plain language overview of the recommendation for Healthcare Claims Attachments, expected to be named under the Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA, 1996) in 2008. While only “claims attach...

Family=CDA,Category=XML Schemas,Category=Standard Reference Materials Claims Attachments XML Package (AIS Supporting Files) (2003)

Claims Attachments CDA Header XML Schema and stylesheet files that are provided are not part of the balloted content of the standard. Their use by implementers of the standard is entirely optional. HL7 intends to issue improvements to these documents from time to time w...

Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Clinical Context Management Specification (CCOW) Application Protection Package, Release 1 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Clinical Context Management Specification (CCOW) Context Manager Protection Package, Release 1 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Clinical Context Management Specification (CCOW) User Authentication Protection Package, Release 1.6 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.0 Normative
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.1 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.2 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.3 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.4 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.5 Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Section=1,Section=6,Family=CCOW,Category=CCOW,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VISUAL Context Management Specifications (CCOW) V 1.6

Aimed at facilitating the integration of applications at the point of use, CCOW Context Management Specification is a standard for both internal applications programming and runtime environment infrastructure that complements Health Level Seven International's traditional emphas...

Normative Clinical Context Object Workgroup
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG,Category=TOOLS Eight Outstanding Versions Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Category=Specification Errata,wg=PHER Errata for V251 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (US Realm), Release 1

Please note that these errata are included in the V251 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health, Release 1 download package as of 7 October 2011.

 Public Health and Emergency Response
Section=3,Section=6,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=DSS GELLO (HL7 Version 3 Standard: Gello: A Common Expression Language, Release 2)

GELLO, part of the HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, is a standard query and expression language that provides a suitable framework for manipulation of clinical data for decision support in healthcare. The GELLO language can be used to build queries to extract and manipulate data from medica...

Normative Clinical Decision Support
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas German Message Profiles for HL7 Version 2.5 (in German)

German Message Profiles for HL7 Version 2.5 (in German)
Section=2,Section=6,Family=ARDEN,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ARDEN Health Level Seven Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, Version 2.8

The HL7 International Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems is an ANSI-approved American National Standard language for encoding procedural medical knowledge and representing and sharing that knowledge among personnel, information systems and institutions. The Arden Syntax assists clinic...

Normative Arden Syntax
Section=7,Family=EDUCATION,Category=BOOK HL7 Certification Package - Book, Guide and CDs.
Family=CDA,Category=Standard Reference Materials HL7 Claims Attachments Additional Information Specification Release 2.1
Section=2,Section=3,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=SERVICES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=DSS HL7 Decision Support Service (DSS), Release 1

A Decision Support Service (DSS) facilitates the delivery of clinical decision support by receiving patient data as the input and returning patient-specific conclusions as the output. The HL7 DSS specification provides a standard interface for the provision and consumption of such s...

Normative Clinical Decision Support
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=DAM,wg=PHER HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Immunization, Release 1

The Immunization Domain Analysis Model is a document that is intended to paint a picture of the domain around immunization. This includes the types of immunization data important in clinical medicine and public heath, the interactions between health information systems regarding immuni...

Informative Public Health and Emergency Response
Section=4,Family=EHR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR Behavioral Health Functional Profile, Release 1

This HL7 EHR Behavioral Health Functional Profile (EHR BH FP) contains the functions and conformance criteria deemed important for behavioral health care providers' clinical records systems. At a minimum, this profile provides a shopping list of capabilities a behavi...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR Child Health Functional Profile (CHFP), Release 1

The HL7 Child Health Functional Profile for EHR Systems (Child Health Profile) is designed to assist children's healthcare providers and associated IT vendors to create functionality that ensures safe and reliable care of children through the effective use of information technology. Specif...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR Clinical Research Functional Profile (CRFP), Release 1

The EHR Clinical Research Functional Profile (EHR CR FP) provides high-level functional requirements necessary for using electronic health record (EHR) data for regulated clinical research. It also provides a roadmap towards an evolutionary process of integrating the environment that provid...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Category=PHARMACY,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR Pharmacist/Pharmacy Provider Functional Profile

The Pharmacist/Pharmacy Provider Functional Profile will facilitate EHR systems capture of medication and clinical related data at the point of contact or point of care by specifying the functional requirements needed to support messaging among prescribers, pharmacist and pharma...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Category=MEDREC,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR Records Management and Evidentiary Support Functional Model, Release 1

The EHR Records Management and Evidentiary Support Functional Profile (RM-ES FP) provides functions in an EHR system that can help an organization maintain a legal record for business and disclosure purposes, help reduce a provider’s administrative burden, and reduce costs ...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR System Long Term Care Functional Profile, Release 1 - US Realm

The HL7 EHR System Long Term Care Functional Profile (LTC EHR-S FP) establishes the functions and conformance criteria for EHR systems in the nursing home setting for the US Realm, and will serve as a key resource to the Certification Commi...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=FunctionalProfile,Category=ANSI-registered,wg=EHR HL7 EHR-S Vital Records Functional Profile, Release 1 - US Realm

The Electronic Health Record System Vital Records Functional Profile (VRFP) identifies Electronic Health Record system functions that support the capture of vital records (Birth, Fetal Death and Death-related) information at the point of contact or point of care. The VRFP articulates the fu...

Informative Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Type=NORMATIVE_PENDING,Category=FunctionalProfile,wg=EHR HL7 EHR-System Functional Model, R1.1

Release 1.1 of the Electronic Health Record System Function Model is a jointly balloted international standard which provides a reference list of functions and associated conformance criteria that would be broadly applicable to health care.  As such, the model is not intend...

Normative (pending) Electronic Health Records
Section=4,Family=EHR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=EHR HL7 Electronic Health Record-System (EHR-S) Functional Model (FM), Release 1

The HL7 International EHR System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) outlines important features and functions that should be contained in an EHR system. Through the creation of functional profiles, this model provides a standard description and common understanding of functions for he...

Normative Electronic Health Records
Section=5,Family=V3,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications,wg=CLAIMS HL7 Implementation Guidance for Unique Object Identifiers (OIDs), Release 1

The purpose of the HL7 Implementation Guidance for Unique Object Identifiers (OIDs), Release 1 document is to describe how to manage the various values needed to provide global uniqueness for identifiers used for patients, documents, providers and other entities when appear...

Informative Attachments
Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=DSTU,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA R2: Quality Reporting Document Architecture, Release 1 (QRDA)

This HL7 Version 3 CDA implementation guide is a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) that offers a means for QRDA to use EHR information when creating quality measure definition and reporting.  Health care institutions routinely collect and report performance measure data t...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=5,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Patient Referral HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2 - Level 1 and 2 - Care Record Summary (US realm)

The Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2 – Level 1 and 2 – Care Record Summary (US realm) describes constraints on the CDA Header and Body elements for Care Record Summary documents.  A Care Record Summary document contains patient's relevant health history for some t...

Informative
Section=5,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=DSTU,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2 - Personal Healthcare Monitoring Report

This Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) is an extension of HL7's Continuity of Care Document (CCD) specification. The purpose of this document is to describe constraints on the CDA Header and Body elements for Personal Healthcare Monitoring Report (PHMR) documents mostly contai...

DSTU, DSTU (Expired) Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=CDA,Type=DSTU,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Care Record Summary Discharge Summary

The CDA Implementation Guide for Care Record Summary, Release 2, Discharge Summary provides disparate hospital systems a standard format to report back to a primary care provider or other parties interested in the patient's hospital care.

 DSTU Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=CDA,Type=DSTU,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Consult Notes, Release 1

This implementation guide (IG) (currently a DSTU) describes how HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Release 2 is used to record information for a Consult Note. The Consult Note may contain both narrative and coded data. For the purpose of this IG a consultation visit is define...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=DSTU HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: History and Physical (H&P) Notes, Release 1

This Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) describes how The HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Release 2 is used to record information for a History and Physical Note. The History and Physical Note may contain both narrative and coded data. The purpose of the implem...

DSTU
Section=3,Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=DSTU,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: NHSN Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Reports

This Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) is based on HL7 Version 3’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and specifies a standard for electronic submission of healthcare associated infection (HAI) Reports to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) of the Centers for Disease Contro...

DSTU, DSTU (Expired) Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=CDA,Type=DSTU,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Operative Notes, Release 1

This implementation guide, currently available as a draft standard trial use (DSTU), describes how the HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is used to record information for an Operative Note.  The operative note may contain both narrative and coded data.

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Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=DSTU,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Patient Assessments, Release 1

This Implementation Guide (IG) facilitates a standard electronic communication for electronic submission to CDA of their Questionnaire Assessments. These allow healthcare facilities and providers a standard way to communicate reports in an industry standard format. Questionnaire Assess...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=CDA,Type=DSTU,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Progress Note

A Progress Note documents a patient’s clinical status during a hospitalization or outpatient visit, thus is associated with an encounter. The method used to develop the HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Progress Note, Release 1 (US Realm) included a review of indust...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=3,Section=5,Family=CDA,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Public Health Case Reports (US Realm)

The purpose of this implementation guide (IG) is to specify a standard for electronic submission of Public Health Case Reports (PHCR) in an HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Release 2 format. This implementation guide will allow healthcare facilities/providers to commun...

Informative Structured Documents
Section=4,Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: Reference Profile for EHR Interoperability, Release 1 DSTU (Expired) Structured Documents
Section=4,Section=5,Family=CDA,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® R2: Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer, Release 1

This document describes constraints on the Health Level Seven International (HL7®) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) Release 2 - Continuity of Care Documents (CCD) specification to support personal health record data exchange between personal health records manage...

Informative Structured Documents
Section=3,Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Type=DSTU,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: IHE Health Story Consolidation, Release 1 - US Realm

The Consolidated Templated implementation guide contains a library of CDA templates, incorporating and harmonizing previous efforts from Health Level Seven (HL7), Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), and Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). It repres...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=3,Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=DSTU,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2: Procedure Note, Release 1

This document describes constraints on the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Header and Body elements for Procedure Note documents. The Procedure Note or Report is created immediately following a non-operative procedure and records the indications for the procedure and, when applic...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=DSTU,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guide for Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2: Unstructured Documents

This Implementation Guide provides consistent guidance for sending/receiving unstructured clinical documents including images, scanned documents, faxed and word processor output. This Implementation Guide describes constraints on use of the Clinical Document Archit...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=3,Section=5,Family=CDA,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Patient Referral,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Implementation Guides for CDA® R2: greenCDA Modules for CCD®, Release 1

The Clinical Document Architecture Release 2.0 (CDA R2) addresses universal requirements for exchange and management of structured clinical documents. The approach described in this document, The HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: greenCDA Modules for CCD, Releas...

Informative Structured Documents
Section=7,Family=EDUCATION,Category=BOOK HL7 Messaging and Enterprise Integration Using HL7 CDs
Section=7,Family=EDUCATION,Category=BOOK HL7 Messaging Book
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.2 Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.3 Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=HHSFR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.3.1 Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.4 Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.5 Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=HHSFR,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ORDERS HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.5.1 Normative Orders and Observations
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=INM HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.6 Normative Infrastructure and Messaging
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=INM HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.7

HL7’s Version 2.x (V2) messaging standard is the workhorse of electronic data exchange in the clinical domain and arguably the most widely implemented standard for healthcare in the world. This messaging standard allows the exchange of clinical data between systems. It is design...

Normative Infrastructure and Messaging
Section=3,Section=5,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=IMAGEMGT HL7 Standard for CDA® Release 2: Imaging Integration; Basic Imaging Reports in CDA and DICOM, Release 1

This HL7 implementation guide describes how the HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Release 2 is used to record information for a Diagnostic Imaging Report. A Diagnostic Imaging Report contains a consulting specialist’s interpretation of image data. It is intended to convey...

Informative Imaging Integration
Section=7,Category=BOOK HL7 Study Guide Book
Section=5,Family=V2,Type=INFORMATIVE HL7 V2.2 Implementation Guide

This document provides assistance to healthcare institutions, hospital information systems vendors, consultants and other support groups that are considering systems development and implementation activities in a multi-system environment using the Health Level Seven (HL7) protoc...

Informative
Section=5,Family=V2,Type=INFORMATIVE HL7 V2.3 Implementation Guide

This document provides assistance to healthcare institutions, hospital information systems vendors, consultants, and other support groups that are considering systems development and implementation activities in a multi-system environment using the Health Level Seven (HL7) protoc...

Informative
Section=5,Family=V2,Type=INFORMATIVE HL7 V2.3.1 Implementation Guide

This document provides assistance to healthcare institutions, hospital information systems vendors, consultants, and other support groups that are considering systems development and implementation activities in a multi-system environment using the Health Level Seven (HL7) protoc...

Informative
Section=7,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=NOT_PUBLISHED,Category=DAM,wg=RCRIM HL7 V3 DAM: Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Not Published Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=CLINICALGENOMICS,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=CLINGENOMICS HL7 Version 2 Implementation Guide: Clinical Genomics; Fully LOINC-Qualified Genetic Variation Model, Release 1 (US Realm)

This Implementation Guide: Clinical Genomics; Fully LOINC-Qualified Genetic Variation Model, Release 1 (US Realm) supports the transmission of clinical genetic test results using a 2.5.1 lab message (from the lab to the medical record). This standard is designed to help organi...

Informative Clinical Genomics
Section=5,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=ORDERS HL7 Version 2 Implementation Guide: Laboratory Test Compendium Framework, Release 1

The Version 2 Implementation Guide: Laboratory Test Compendium Framework, Release 1 is a master file framework Implementation Guide (IG) for the electronic delivery of a laboratory’s Directory of Service (eDOS) to all providers that order lab work including EHRs, HLIS, ...

Informative Orders and Observations
Section=1,Section=3,Family=V2,Type=INFORMATIVE,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2 Product Suite

HL7’s Version 2.x (V2) messaging standard is the workhorse of electronic data exchange in the clinical domain and arguably the most widely implemented standard for healthcare in the world. This messaging standard allows the exchange of clinical data between systems. It is design...

Informative, Normative
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.3.1 Messaging Addenda

This addendum is provided to add clarity to implementations of the HL7 version 2.3.1 messaging standard which choose to follow guidelines for implementing the standard with an XML encoding.  This addendum does not affect implementations of the HL7 version 2.3.1 standard that u...

Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.3.1 Messaging Schemas

The HL7 Version 2 v2.xml Message Definition schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While HL7 publishes schema...

Family=V3,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.3.1 Specification Errata

Technical Corrections to HL7 Version 2.3.1 Messaging Standard
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.4 Messaging Addenda

This addendum is provided to add clarity to implementations of the HL7 version 2.4 messaging standard which choose to follow guidelines for implementing the standard with an XML encoding.  This addendum does not affect implementations of the HL7 version 2.4 standard that u...

Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.4 Messaging Schemas

The HL7 Version 2.4 v2.xml Message Definition schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While HL7 publishes schema...

Family=V2,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.4 Specification Ambulatory Payment Classification Grouping Implementation Suggestion

HL7 Version 2.4 Specification Ambulatory Payment Classification Grouping Implementation Suggestion is a means of complying with the HCFA mandate for Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) prior to the official publication of V2.4 and when using earlier versions of the Standa...

Family=V2,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.4 Specification Errata

Technical corrections to HL7 Version 2.4 Messaging Standard.
Family=V2,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.4 Specification Technical Correction: P03 and P11 Trigger Events

HL7 Version 2.4 Specification Technical Correction: P03 and P11 Trigger Events were corrected for the DFT message to distinguish P03 segments global across all FT1 segments and details the new P11 triggers and their associated message structures.

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Family=V2,Category=Specification Errata HL7 Version 2.4 Specification Technical Correction: P03 Updates

V2.4 - P03 Post Detail Financial Transaction Implementation Suggestion provides FT1 specific charge update segments vs. the global update segments for the DG1, DRG, GT1 and IN1 segments.
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.5 Messaging Schemas

The HL7 V2.5 v2.xml Message Definition schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While ...

Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=HHSFR,Category=LABORATORY,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=PHER HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health, Release 1 (US Realm)

The Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (US Realm), Release 1 describes the transmission of laboratory-reportable findings to appropriate local, state, territorial and federal health agencies using the message. In particular, this guide ...

Informative Public Health and Emergency Response
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Type=INFORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Orders and Observations; Ambulatory Lab Result (ELINCS), Release 1

This HL7 Version 2.5.1 Ambulatory Care Laboratory Result (ELINCS) Implementation Guide provides guidance on how to apply the HL7 Version 2.5.1 standard for the electronic reporting of laboratory test results to electronic health record (EHR) systems found in ambulatory care practi...

Informative
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=HHSFR,Category=LABORATORY,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=ORDERS HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Orders and Observations; Interoperable Laboratory Result Reporting to EHR, Release 1

The Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide; Orders and Observations; Interoperable Laboratory Result Reporting to EHR (US Realm), Release 1 provides guidance on how to apply the Version 2.5.1 standard to the exchange of laboratory results from the testing source between providers and ot...

Informative Orders and Observations
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=DSTU,wg=PHER HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Vital Records Death Reporting

The purpose of this implementation guide (IG) is to provide a draft standard for trial use for transmitting death related information from a clinical setting to the vital records electronic registration system in an HL7 V2.5.1 format.   This specification covers the provis...

DSTU Public Health and Emergency Response
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.5.1 Messaging Schemas

The schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While HL7 publishes schema for the HL7 data types, other schemas could be pro...

Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=ORDERS HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Blood Bank Donation Services (US Realm), Release 1

The HL7 Blood Bank Donation Services Implementation Guide – U.S. Realm is a messaging specification intended to standardize the electronic transmission of information between system application components in a Blood Bank setting. While this is U.S. Realm specific, there are no...

Informative Orders and Observations
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.6 Messaging Schemas

The HL7 Version 2.6 v2.xml Message Definition schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While HL7 publishes schema...

Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.7 Messaging Schemas

The HL7 Version 2.7 v2.xml Message Definition schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While HL7 publishes schema...

Section=6,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 02 - Control

The Control chapter of the Health Level Seven (HL7) International® Standard defines the generic rules that apply to all messages, including trigger events and acknowledgements as well as message structure, construction rules, processing rules, segments, fields, delimiters, format...

Normative
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V2,Category=DATATYPES,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 02.a - Control- Data Types

The Control – Data Types chapter of the Health Level Seven (HL7) International® Standard defines the basic building blocks used to construct or restrict the contents of a data field. Each field is assigned a data type that defines the value domain of the field – the possib...

Normative
Section=6,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 02b - Control; Conformance Using Message Profiles

The Control – Conformance Using Message Profiles chapter of the Health Level Seven® International (HL7) Standard presents the methodology for producing a precise and unambiguous specification called a message profile. Messages that adhere to the constraints of a m...

Normative
Section=6,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Terminology HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 02c - Control; Code Tables

The Control – Code Tables chapter of the Health Level Seven® International (HL7) Standard contains the code tables used in the definition of fields as a component of its data type. The code tables were originally documented in individual chapters of the HL7 Version 2 Standa...

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Section=3,Family=V2,Category=PATIENTADMIN,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 03 - Patient Administration

The organization and delivery of healthcare services is an information-intensive effort. It is generally accepted that the efficacy of healthcare operations is greatly affected by the extent of automation of information management functions. Many believe that healthcare delivery agencies that h...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 04 - Order Entry

The Order Entry transaction set provides for the transmission of orders or information about orders between applications that capture the order, by those that fulfill the order, and other applications as needed.  An order is a request for material or services, usually for a specif...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 05 - Queries

This chapter defines the rules that apply to queries and to their responses. It also defines the unsolicited display messages because their message syntax is query-like in nature.

 

A query with its response should be thought of as a message pair. The three generic mode...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 06 - Financial Management

The Finance chapter describes patient accounting transactions.  Financial transactions can be sent between applications either in batches or online.  As defined in Chapter 2 on batch segments, multiple transactions may be grouped and sent through all file transfer media ...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 07 - Observation Reporting

This chapter describes the transaction set required for sending structured patient-oriented clinical data from one computer system to another.  A common use of these transaction sets will be to transmit observations and results of diagnostic studies from the producing system (e.g.,...

Normative
Section=6,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 08 - Master Files

The V2.x Standards support the majority of the common interfaces used in the healthcare industry globally as well as a framework for negotiations for what is not in the standard. The use of the standard reduces implementation costs and each V2.x version is generally backward compat...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=MEDREC,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 09 - Medical Records/Information Management (Document Management)

This chapter currently supports document management and defines the Medical Document Management (MDM) transaction set.  In the future, it is intended also to support the data exchange needs of applications supporting other medical record functions, including chart location and tr...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=SCHEDULING,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 10 - Scheduling

This chapter defines abstract messages for the purpose of communicating various events related to the scheduling of appointments for services or for the use of resources.  There are three basic types of messages defined in this transaction set: request transactions and their respon...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Patient Referral HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 11 - Patient Referral

The Patient Referral chapter defines the message set used in patient referral communications between mutually exclusive healthcare entities.  These referral transactions frequently occur between entities with different methods and systems of capturing and st...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 12 - Patient Care

The Patient Care chapter supports the communication of problem-oriented records, including clinical problems, goals, and pathway information between computer systems. The purpose of this chapter is to describe healthcare messages that need to be communicated between clinical applic...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=LABORATORY,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 13 - Clinical Laboratory Automation

Clinical laboratory automation involves the integration or interfacing of automated or robotic transport systems, analytical instruments, and pre- or post-analytical process equipment such as automated centrifuges and aliquoters, decappers, recappers, sorters, and specimen storage and retrie...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 14 - Application Management

This chapter does not specify a protocol for managing networks, á la TCP/IP SNMP.  Rather, its messages provide a means to manage HL7-supporting applications over a network.

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Section=3,Family=V2,Category=PERSONALMGMT,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 15 - Personnel Management

The Personnel Management transaction set provides for the transmission of new or updated administration information about individual healthcare practitioners and supporting staff members.  Since many systems (e.g., security, scheduling, orders, etc.), must be able to closely monito...

Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 16 - Claims and Reimbursement

This document contains the HL7 messaging specifications to support Claims and Reimbursement (CR) for the electronic exchange of health invoice (claim) data.

 Normative
Section=3,Family=V2,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Materials Management HL7 Version 2.7 Standard: Chapter 17 - Materials Management

This Materials Management chapter defines abstract messages for the purpose of communicating various events related to the transactions derived from supply chain management within a healthcare facility.  There are two basic types of messages defined in this chapter: inventory item master...

Normative
Family=V2,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Standard Reference Materials HL7 Version 2.x Message Profiling Specification

The HL7 V2.x Message Profiling informative document (2000) provides a guideline for documenting particular uses of HL7 messages. A defined V2.x message profile will be registered with HL7 and may be reused by other HL7 users, moving the HL7 V2.x standard closer to "plug and pl...

Informative
Section=7,Family=V2 HL7 Version 2.x Messaging Schemas

The schema representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself a normative part of this specification. While HL7 publishes schema for the HL7 data types, other schemas could be pro...

Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas HL7 Version 2.x XML Example Messages

v2.xml Example Messages
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Cardiology,Category=DAM,wg=CIC HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Cardiology; Acute Coronary Syndrome, Release 1

The Cardiology (Acute Coronary Syndrome, ACS) Domain Analysis Model will describe the ACS diagnosis, treatment and reporting space to facilitate the exchange and promote reuse of  information between all parties involved in ACS treatment, quality reporting and research and thereb...

Informative Clinical Interoperability Council
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=DAM,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Trials Registration and Results (CTR&R), Release 1

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Trial Registration and Results (CTR&R), Release 1 represents the behavioral and information requirements for the CTR&R domain.  It serves as a tool for subject matter experts to examine, express, and evaluate their requirements for us...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,Category=DAM,wg=DSS HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Virtual Medical Record for Clinical Decision Support (vMR-CDS), Release 1

A Virtual Medical Record (vMR) is a data model for representing the data that are analyzed and/or produced by clinical decision support (CDS) engines. The goal of this project is to define HL7 vMR data models capable of supporting scalable, interoperable CDS. This specification consists of a tech...

Informative Clinical Decision Support
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=DAM,wg=PHER HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Vital Records (VR DAM)

The HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Vital Records (VR DAM) describes the workflows and stakeholders for transmitting birth and death data to and from U.S. vital records systems. The VR DAM describes how birth, death and fetal death records are p...

Informative Public Health and Emergency Response
Section=3,Section=5,Section=7,Family=CDA,Category=PATIENTCARE,Type=DSTU,wg=STRUCTURE HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide for Clinical Document Architecture R2 L3: Neonatal Care Reports (NCR), R1

This implementation guide (IG) specifies a standard for electronic submission of neonatal care records (NCRs) in a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Release 2 (R2) format. This facilitates electronic extraction of a subset of the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC)...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Annotated ECG (aECG)

This HL7 Version 3 implementation guide offers supplemental material for the January, 2004 annotated ECG (aECG), standard. This implementation guide is not complete in itself and should be used in conjunction with the HL7 aECG standard, R1 as well as the standard’s XML schema...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Drug Stability Reporting (eStability) R1, Release 2

Describes the basic requirements needed for using the Stability standard and the requirements needed for submitting information to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) using the standard. This implementation guide is superseded with updates included in HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Drug S...

Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Drug Stability Reporting (eStability) R2, Release 2

Describes the basic requirements needed for using the Stability standard and the requirements needed for submitting information to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) using the standard. This implementation guide is superseded with updates included in HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Drug S...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Drug Stability Reporting (eStability) R2, Release 3

This implementation guide for Drug Stability Reporting (eStability) describes the basic requirements needed for using the standard, and the requirements needed for submitting information to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agencies using the standard. It is meant to be used for all regula...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Structured Product Labeling, Release 1

This document provides technical conformance criteria for Structured Product Labeling (SPL) files based on the drug establishment registration and drug listing process at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Information on electronic submission may be found in guidance entitl...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Regulated Products,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Structured Product Labeling, Release 3: FDA Content of Labeling

This document provides technical conformance criteria for Structured Product Labeling (SPL) files based on the drug establishment registration and drug listing process at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Information on electronic submission may be found in guidance entitl...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=5,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Structured Product Labeling, Release 4

This document provides technical conformance criteria for Structured Product Labeling (SPL) files based on the drug establishment registration and drug listing process at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Information on electronic submission may be found in guidance entitl...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=5,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Regulated Products,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Structured Product Labeling, Release 5

This document provides technical conformance criteria for Structured Product Labeling (SPL) files based on the drug establishment registration and drug listing process at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Information on electronic submission may be found in guidance entitl...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Family=V3,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,wg=DSS HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: URL-Based Implementations of the Context-Aware Information Retrieval (Infobutton) Domain, Release 2

The Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton), Knowledge Request specification, provides a standard mechanism for clinical information systems to submit knowledge requests to knowledge resources. Context-aware knowledge retrieval into clinical information systems (CIS), such a...

Informative Clinical Decision Support
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V3,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,wg=DSS HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: URL-Based Implementations of the Context-Aware Information Retrieval (Infobutton) Domain, Release 3

The Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton), Knowledge Request specification, provides a standard mechanism for clinical information systems to submit knowledge requests to knowledge resources. Context-aware knowledge retrieval into clinical information systems (CIS), such a...

Informative Clinical Decision Support
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V3,Type=DSTU,Category=Decision Support,wg=DSS HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Virtual Medical Record for Clinical Decision Support (vMR-CDS) for GELLO, Release 1

A Virtual Medical Record (vMR) is a data model for representing the data that are analyzed and/or produced by clinical decision support (CDS) engines.  The goal of this project is to define HL7 vMR data models capable of supporting scalable, interoperable CDS.  This specif...

DSTU Clinical Decision Support
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2005 Normative
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2006 Normative
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2008 Normative
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2009 Normative
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2010 Normative
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2011

The Health Level Seven Version 3 (V3) Normative Edition—a suite of specifications based on HL7’s Reference Information Model (RIM)—provides a single source that allows implementers of V3 specifications to work with the full set of messages, data types, and termin...

Normative
Section=1,Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE HL7 Version 3 Product Suite

The Health Level Seven Version 3 (V3) Normative Edition—a suite of specifications based on HL7’s Reference Information Model (RIM)—provides a single source that allows implementers of V3 specifications to work with the full set of messages, data types, and termin...

Normative
Section=6,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=TRANSPORTSPEC,Type=DSTU,Type=NOT_YET_PUBLISHED,wg=SOA HL7 Version 3 Specification: hData Record Format

The hData Record Format describes how clinical data of arbitrary media type can be organized in a hierarchical abstract format, and how meta data can be attached consistently to each data item. As a realization of RLUS, it defines a semantic signifier (within the hData Content Profil...

DSTU, Not Yet Published Services Oriented Architecture
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=CAREPROVISION,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=PATIENTCARE HL7 Version 3 Standard: Care Provision

The Care Provision Domain describes information structures and vocabulary used to communicate information pertinent to the care of living subjects, devices, geographic sites, and other physical entities by a responsible care provider. This domain supports multiple referrals and re...

DSTU (Expired) Patient Care
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=CAREPROVISION,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED HL7 Version 3 Standard: Care Provision, R1: Allergies and Intolerance DSTU (Expired)
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=CAREPROVISION,Type=DSTU,wg=PATIENTCARE HL7 Version 3 Standard: Care Provision; Assessment Scales, Release 2

The most fundamental question is always how certain information in HL7 should be transmitted. In most cases, it is information that belongs to the category of "findings" or "observations". The so-called Score or assessment systems are findings. Score systems are so-cal...

DSTU Patient Care
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=CLINICALGENOMICS,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=CLINGENOMICS HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Genomics; Pedigree, Release 1

The HL7 Clinical Genomics Pedigree Model is a data standard for transmitting family health histories between systems. This includes describing a patient’s full pedigree with diseases and conditions, and the option to link genetic data and risk analysis. The model has the abilit...

Normative Clinical Genomics
Section=2,Section=7,Family=V3,Type=NOT_YET_PUBLISHED,Category=Clinical Statement,wg=CLINICALSTATEMENTS HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Statement Pattern Release 1

The Clinical Statement model is designed to be used within multiple HL7 Version 3 domain models. Clinical Statement is intended to facilitate the consistent design of communications that convey clinical information to meet specific use cases. In most cases Clinical Statement will be ref...

Not Yet Published Clinical Statement
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=DSTU,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Trial Registration and Results (CTR&R)

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Trial Registration and Results (CTR&R), Release 1 focuses on the development and maintenance of an HL7 V3 message in support of the global data exchange requirements brought about by the increasing number of national, regional, global and or...

DSTU Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=DSS HL7 Version 3 Standard: Context-Aware Retrieval Application (Infobutton); Release 1

Context-aware knowledge retrieval into clinical information systems (CIS), such as electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) systems, is an increasingly promising approach for delivering relevant clinical knowledge to the point of care as well as patien...

Normative Clinical Decision Support
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=DATATYPES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MNM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Data Types - Abstract Specification, Release 2

This document provides the semantic definitions for the data types used in the creation of HL7 V3 specifications. These "abstract" semantic definitions are also able to be used as constraints in the creation of implementation guides, and implementation techno...

Normative Modeling and Methodology
Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Decision Support,wg=DSS HL7 Version 3 Standard: Gello: A Common Expression Language, Release 1

GELLO, part of the HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, is a standard query and expression language that provides a suitable framework for manipulation of clinical data for decision support in healthcare. Version 1 was approved by ANSI in 2005. See GELLO R2 product for the updated releas...

Normative Clinical Decision Support
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=PATIENTSAFETY,wg=PATIENTSAFETY,wg=PATIENTSAFETY HL7 Version 3 Standard: Individual Case Safety Report, Release 1

The Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) captures information about adverse events and product problems that are reported to public health, patient safety/quality improvement organizations or regulatory agencies. The ICSR message supports reporting from a variety of  source...

Normative Patient Safety
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications,wg=MNM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Model Interchange Format, Release 1

The HL7 Version 3 Specification: Model Interchange Format (MIF), Release 1 defines the content of the artifacts used by HL7, HL7 affiliates and implementers in the creation and implementation of HL7 v3 specifications, including messages, documents and services.  It provid...

Informative Modeling and Methodology
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=PATIENTSAFETY HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacovigilance - Individual Case Safety Report, Part 1: The Framework for Adverse Event Reporting, R2

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacovigilance - Individual Case Safety Report has two parts: Part 1: The Framework for Adverse Event Reporting, R2 has been published by ANSI as ANSI/HL7 V3 ICSRP1, R2-2012; Part 2: Human Pharmaceutical Reporting Requirements for ICSR, R2; has been approved by ANSI a...

Normative Patient Safety
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=PATIENTSAFETY HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacovigilance - Individual Case Safety Report, Part 2: Human Pharmaceutical Reporting Requirements for ICSR, R2

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacovigilance - Individual Case Safety Report has two parts: Part 1: The Framework for Adverse Event Reporting, R2 has been published by ANSI as ANSI/HL7 V3 ICSRP1, R2-2012; Part 2: Human Pharmaceutical Reporting Requirements for ICSR, R2; has been approved by ANSI a...

Normative Patient Safety
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PATIENTADMIN,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=PAFM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Registries; Real Time Location Tracking, Release 1

A Real-Time Location System (RLTS) tracks the location of tags associated with patients, providers, and equipment within a healthcare facility. This document defines storyboards, trigger events, information models and interactions for exchanging information between RTLS a...

Normative Patient Administration
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Category=SERVICES,Type=DSTU,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Regulated Studies; Clinical Research Filtered Query (CRFQ) Service Functional Model (SFM), Release 1

The Clinical Research Filtered Query Service Functional Model  (CFQ SFM) defines a single service with two distinct profiles:

  • The first is an EHR service provider that queries all EHR records to provide data on counts of patients who satisfy the inclusion or exclusion crit...
DSTU Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Regulated Products,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Structured Product Labeling, Release 3 Normative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=1,Section=3,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Regulated Products,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Structured Product Labeling, Release 4

The HL7 Version 3 Structured Product Labeling (SPL) specification is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of the content of authorized published information that accompanies any medicine licensed by a medicines licensing authority.  An SPL docume...

Normative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=DSTU,Category=Regulated Products,wg=RCRIM HL7 Version 3 Standard: Structured Product Labeling, Release 5

The HL7 Version 3 Structured Product Labeling (SPL) specification is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of the content of authorized published information that accompanies any medicine licensed by a medicines licensing authority. An SPL docume...

DSTU Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=6,Family=V3,Category=TRANSPORTSPEC,Type=NORMATIVE,wg=ITS HL7 Version 3 Standard: Transport Specification – ebXML Using ebMS 2.0, Release 1

The purpose of the ebXML message wrapper is to provide a secure, flexible transport for exchanging HL7 messages and other content, and potentially other message formats, between message handling interfaces or ebXML Message Service Handlers (ebXML MSH over a variety of lower level transp...

Normative Implementable Technology Specifications
Section=6,Family=V3,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=XML Schemas,Category=ANSI-approved HL7 Version 3 Standard: XML Implementation Technology Specification - Structures, Release 1

This document defines the representation of HL7 V3 messages in XML, including the method to derive XML DTDs plus additional processing rules from HL7 V3 Hierarchical Message Definitions (HMD). 

 Normative
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MNM,wg=MNM,wg=MNM,wg=MNM,wg=MNM HL7 Version 3: Reference Information Model (RIM)

The HL7 Version 3 RIM provides a static view of the information needs of HL7 Version 3 standards. It includes class and state-machine diagrams and references data type models and terminology models to provide a complete view of the requirements and design of HL7 standards.

... 		Normative Modeling and Methodology
Section=3,Section=5,Family=V2,Category=PHARMACY,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=MEDREC HL7-NCPDP Electronic Prescribing Coordination Mapping Document, Release 1

The Version 2 NCPDP Electronic Prescribing Coordination Mapping Implementation Guide provides mapping requirements for electronic prescribing systems using HL7 Versions 2.4 and later. It specifies functional electronic prescribing communication with systems using NCPDP SCRIPT Standa...

Informative Pharmacy
Section=1,Section=3,Section=5,Family=CDA,Category=HHSFR,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Patient Referral HL7/ASTM Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2 -Continuity of Care Document (CCD®) Release 1

The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) is a joint effort of HL7 International and ASTM. CCD fosters interoperability of clinical data by allowing physicians to send electronic medical information to other providers without loss of meaning and enabling improvement of patient care. CCD is...

Informative
Section=7,Family=V3,Category=SERVICES,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=SOA Identification Service Functional Model (EIS SFM) DSTU (Expired) Services Oriented Architecture
Section=4,Family=EHR,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=EHR PHR-S FM Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) DSTU (Expired) Electronic Health Records
Family=CDA,Category=Patient Referral Presentation: Overview of Care Record Summary

The purpose of this document is to describe constraints on the CDA Document Body elements for a Care Record Summary document. A Care Record Summary document contains patient's relevant health history for some time period. It is intended for communication between healthcare provid...

Section=7,Category=BOOK Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED, Hard Copy
Family=CDA,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Standard Reference Materials Quick Start Guide for CDA R2

The purpose of this Quick Start Guide is to aid implementers in developing applications that produce simple CDA documents.

 Informative
Family=CCOW,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Standard Reference Materials Recommendations for HL7 Messaging Over Component Technologies (1998)

Recommendations for HL7 Messaging Over Component Technologies Version 1.0, Rev. 9, January 12, 1998 (doc)  is a specification for a set of rules that enable users to describe  HL7 version 2.2 messages using Automation and OMG IDL specification styles.  One of...

Informative
Section=6,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MNM Refinement, Constraint, and Localization (RCL) to V3 Messages, R2

This HL7 Version 3 (V3) standard describes the processes whereby HL7 V3 artifact specifications may be refined, constrained and extended to support implementation designs, conformance profiles, and realm-specific standards.  

 Normative Modeling and Methodology
Section=5,Section=7,Family=V3,Type=DSTU,wg=STRUCTURE Representation of the Health Quality Measures Format (eMeasure)

The Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) is a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. A quality measure is a quantitative tool that provides an indication of an individual or organization’s performance in relation to a specif...

DSTU Structured Documents
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=SERVICES,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=SOA Resource Location and Updating Service (RLUS)

The Retrieve, Location, and Updating Service (RLUS) provides a set of interfaces through which information systems can access and manage information. RLUS allows health data to be located, accessed and updated regardless of underlying data structures, security concerns, or delive...

DSTU (Expired) Services Oriented Architecture
Family=V3,Category=TOOLS,Category=Standard Reference Materials RIMBAA (Java SIG) API Demo Release (2005)

Java API to HL7 Version 3 RIM demo release from September 2005 is an unballoted contribution to complement the HL7 Version 3 product suite which describes a generic API that can be fed both MIF files and message instances. In this approach an application can intelligently know how to han...

Section=2,Section=6,Category=SERVICES,Type=DSTU,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications,wg=ARB,wg=ARB SAIF Canonical Definition

The HL7 Services-Aware Interoperability Framework (SAIF) provides a set of constructs, best practices, processes and more that enable cross-specification discoverable determination of interoperability irrespective of the chosen interoperability paradigm (messages, documents, or servic...

DSTU, Informative Architectural Review
Family=V3,Category=TOOLS,Category=Standard Reference Materials Sample HMD files for RIM-Based Application Architecture (java SIG) [2002]

Sample HMD files for RIM-Based Application Architecture (java SIG) are an unballoted contribution to complement the HL7 Version 3 product suite, developed in 2002.
Family=V2,Category=Standard Reference Materials Secure HL7 Transactions using Internet mail, Rev 1.7

This document is a non-balloted HL7 Recommendation that describes how to send HL7 messages using public Internet mail.
Family=V2,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Standard Reference Materials Standard Guide for Implementing HL7 EDIT Communication Security

This non-balloted Standard Guide gives the framework for secure end-to-end communication of EDI messages focusing on HL7. It is based on the common security model that distinguishes the concepts of communication security as rather globally controlled and application security as rather...

Informative
Family=V3,Category=SPL,Category=Standard Reference Materials Structured Product Labeling (SPL) in the Clinical Environment - Presentation (2010)

Structured Product Labeling (SPL) in the Clinical Environment: Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Digital Medical References (DMR) Presentation, SPL Usage Discussion Group 9/21/2010
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=SPL,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Regulated Products,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=RCRIM Structured Product Labeling, Release 1, Normative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Category=SPL,Type=NORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM Structured Product Labeling, Release 2, Normative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=7,Family=V3,Category=BOOK Understanding Version 3 Guide, Hard Copy
Section=5,Family=V2 V2.2 Implementation Support Guide

This document provides assistance to healthcare institutions, hospital information systems vendors, consultants and other support groups that are considering systems development and implementation activities in a multi-system environment using the Health Level Seven (HL7) protoc...

Section=5,Family=V2 V2.3 Implementation Support Guide

This document provides assistance to healthcare institutions, hospital information systems vendors, consultants, and other support groups that are considering systems development and implementation activities in a multi-system environment using the Health Level Seven (HL7) protoc...

Section=5,Family=V2 V2.3.1 Implementation Support Guide

This document provides assistance to healthcare institutions, hospital information systems vendors, consultants, and other support groups that are considering systems development and implementation activities in a multi-system environment using the Health Level Seven (HL7) protoc...

Section=3,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=RCRIM,wg=RCRIM V3 - Regulated Studies: Drug Stability Reporting (eStability)

The HL7 Version 3 Drug Stability Reporting (eStability) standard standardizes the format and the type of information in Drug Stability Reports for drug: substances; products; and devices. The purpose of eStability is to provide a method to communicate stability data in a standard electr...

Normative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=DSTU_R2,Type=NORMATIVE_R1,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=RCRIM V3 - Regulated Studies: Regulated Product Submissions (RPS)

The HL7 Version 3 Regulated Product Submissions (RPS) standard provides a common means of exchange of documentation and status between product sponsors and regulatory agencies. The standard facilitates the communication of documents relating to, and the status of, activi...

DSTU (R2), Normative (R1) Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=SERVICES,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Terminology,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=VOCAB,wg=VOCAB V3 Common Terminology Services (CTS)

The HL7 International Common Terminology Services (HL7 CTS) defines an Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used by HL7 Version 3 software when accessing terminological content. It is intended to specify only the unique services needed in the HL7 implem...

DSTU (Expired), Normative Vocabulary
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=LABORATORY,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ORDERS V3 Laboratory; Result

The HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition’s laboratory domain comprises the models, messages, and other artifacts that are needed to support messaging related to the results or observations association with laboratory tests. It currently supports the results of laboratory testing of any type o...

Normative Orders and Observations
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=SERVICES,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Methodology Specifications,wg=EHR V3 Methodology: Service Oriented Architecture; Service Definition, Release 1

This document describes a methodology for defining services within the healthcare domain, in particular, for areas covered by Health Level Seven (HL7) domain content; an effort known as Service Oriented Architecture for Health Level Seven (SOA4HL7). It is accompanied by a set of delive...

Informative Electronic Health Records
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=RCRIM V3 Regulated Studies: Annotated ECG (aECG)

The purpose of the HL7 Version 3 Annotated Electrocardiogram (aECG) standard is to provide a means to systematically evaluate the ECG waveforms and measurement locations.  The US Food and Drug Association (FDA) continues to be concerned about evaluating noncardiac drugs for negative cardia...

Normative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=2,Section=6,Section=7,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE_PENDING,Category=Methodology Specifications,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MNM V3 Standard: Core Principles and Properties of V3 Models

As The HL7 Version 3 Methodology matured, the responsible work groups realized that there was a "missing" specification. The "missing" specification should specify what are the essential features of the models on which V3 is based and how should these models be used t...

Normative (pending) Modeling and Methodology
Section=3,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=SERVICES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Community-Based Health,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=SOA V3 Standard: Healthcare, Community Services and Provider Directory (HCSPD SFM)

The Healthcare, Community Services and Provider Directory specifies core functionality of a Services and Provider Directory that not only supports semantic interoperability, but also valuable business initiatives such as Wait List Management. This HL7 SFM specifies a means to conduc...

Normative Services Oriented Architecture
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PERSONALMGMT,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=PAFM V3 Standard: Personnel Management

The Personnel Management Domain spans a variety of clinical-administrative information functions associated with organizations, individuals, animals and devices involved in the delivery and support of healthcare services. The domain content includes roles, relationships, creden...

Normative Patient Administration
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PHARMACY,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MEDREC V3 Standard: Pharmacy

The Pharmacy domain covers community prescribing, discharge prescriptions and institutional medication orders. The models are intended to support the requirements of all jurisdictions. This standard will include support for prescribing, dispensing and administration messag...

Normative Pharmacy
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PHARMACY,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MEDREC V3 Standard: Pharmacy: Medication Dispense and Supply Event, R1

The Medication Dispense and Supply Event topic contains interactions that can be used to exchange information regarding the processing of prescriptions, usually by a pharmacy, including the pick-up of prescribed medication by the patient or a representative. It also covers cases where ...

Normative Pharmacy
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PHARMACY,Type=NOT_YET_NORMATIVE,wg=MEDREC V3 Standard: Pharmacy: Medication; Drug Knowledge-Base Query, R1 Not Yet Normative Pharmacy
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=FM V3: Accounting & Billing

The HL7 Version 3 Accounting and Billing (AB) Messaging Standard supports the communication of acquired patient payor information and specific acquired charges for services to a patient/payer billing system. Examples of services facilitated by this standard include: the creation and manage...

Normative Financial Management
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=FINANCIALMGMT,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=FM V3: Claims & Reimbursement

The HL7 Version 3 Claims and Reimbursements Messaging Standard provides non-US realm support for generic, pharmacy, preferred accommodation, physician, oral health, vision care and hospital claims for eligibility, authorization, coverage extension, pre-determination, invoice adjudi...

Normative Financial Management
Section=6,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=MNM V3: Common Message Element Types

Common Message Element Types (CMETs) are standardized model fragments intended to be building blocks that individual content domains can "include" in their designs. These blocks reduce the effort to produce a domain-specific design and assure that similar conten...

Normative Modeling and Methodology
Section=7,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=PHER V3: Immunization, R1 DSTU (Expired) Public Health and Emergency Response
Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=Cardiology,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ORDERS V3: Implantable Device Cardiac - Follow-up Summary, Release 1

The HL7 Version 3 Implantable Device Cardiac (IDC) Follow-up Summary is a message model for describing an observation of an interrogator at a physical location who is performing an interrogation of a therapeutic medical device (bound to a patient) using identifiable interr...

Normative Orders and Observations
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=DATATYPES,Type=NOT_YET_PUBLISHED,wg=ITS V3: Implementation Technology Specification - ISO Harmonized Datatypes, R1

This product provides a set of global representations for data used in the presentation and communication of healthcare information. This standardized set has been approved by the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) Medical Informatics Technical Committee (TC-215) as a p...

Not Yet Published Implementable Technology Specifications
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=DATATYPES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=INM V3: Implementation Technology Specification - UML Data Types

The Implementation Technology Specification (ITS) is a section in the Version 3 Normative Edition that shows how to map the HL7 data types to the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Unified Modeling Language (UML) and their Object Constraint Language (OCL) kernel data types when needed...

Normative Infrastructure and Messaging
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=DATATYPES,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ITS,wg=ITS V3: Implementation Technology Specification - XML Data Types (and ISO Datatypes, R1)

The HL7 Version 3 Data Types section of the HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition specifies the HL7 Version 3 data type in the context of their XML Implementation Technology Specification (ITS).

 Normative Implementable Technology Specifications
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=TRANSPORTSPEC,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=INM,wg=INM,wg=INM,wg=INM V3: Infrastructure Management - R1

The Infrastructure Management section of the HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition focuses on the development and management of specifications that support the routing of messages to their specified destination(s). Infrastructure Management’s current domains are: Master File/Registry; Message Contro...

Normative Infrastructure and Messaging
Family=V3,Category=TRANSPORTSPEC,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=INM V3: Master File/Registry Infrastructure R1 Normative Infrastructure and Messaging
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=MEDREC,Type=DSTU,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=PATIENTCARE,wg=HOMEHEALTH V3: Medical Records; Data Access Consent, R1 - Composite Privacy Consent Directive, R2

The HL7 Version 3 Data Access Consent standard allows two or more health IT systems to communicate a patient’s consent or to withdraw an existing expression of consent for the collection, access, use or disclosure of their personal health information. The Data Access Consen...

DSTU, Normative Community Based Collaborative Care, Patient Care
Section=3,Section=7,Family=V3,Category=PATIENTADMIN,Type=DSTU,Type=DSTU_EXPIRED,wg=PAFM V3: Patient Administration (also known as ADT - Admit, Discharge, and Transfer; Encounter Management; Administrative Registries)

The Patient Administration standard defines the requirements and specifications to support the interoperability among clinical and non-clinical systems regarding patient encounters and administrative registries.

 DSTU, DSTU (Expired) Patient Administration
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=PUBLICHEALTH,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=DAM,wg=CIC V3: Public Health: Tuberculosis Domain Analysis Model, Release 1

The HL7 Version 3 Tuberculosis Domain Analysis Model (DAM) represents the clinical processes associated with managing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) from the point at which patients present themselves at treatment sites, through diagnosis and treatment. The process model has been s...

Informative Clinical Interoperability Council
Section=3,Family=V3,Category=SCHEDULING,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved V3: Scheduling, R1

The HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition’s Scheduling document describes a messaging architecture for the notification of scheduling information from a scheduling system to auxiliary systems. This includes notifications of new, revised, cancelled, and rescheduled appointments. The me...

Normative
Section=2,Section=3,Family=V3,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=INM,wg=INM,wg=INM V3: Shared Messages

HL7 Version 3 Shared Messages are a work product produced for expressing common, useful and reusable message types. A Shared Message can be envisioned as a message type that is reusable in interactions in any of the domains within the HL7 standard. This document provides data on common messag...

Normative Infrastructure and Messaging
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=TRANSPORTSPEC,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ITS V3: Transport Specifications - ebXML

The purpose of the ebXML message wrapper is to provide a secure, flexible transport for exchanging HL7 messages and other content, and potentially other message formats, between message handling interfaces or ebXML Message Service Handlers (ebXML MSH). The ebXML Transport supports reliab...

Normative Implementable Technology Specifications
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=TRANSPORTSPEC,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ITS,wg=INM V3: Transport Specifications - MLLP

The purpose of the MLLP Protocol (Minimum Lower Layer Protocol) is to provide both a minimalistic Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)-session layer framing protocol as well as a minimalistic reliable transport protocol. If security is an issue, additional protocols or techno...

Normative Implementable Technology Specifications, Infrastructure and Messaging
Family=V2,Category=XML Schemas Version 2 v2.xml XML Schemas for HL7 Version 2.5 and earlier

Version 2 v2.xml XML Schemas for HL7 Version 2.5 and earlier were contributed by Sun Microsystems. These representations are provided for convenience, as the XML schema is a compact and specific way to describe the XML representation. However the schema is not in itself...

Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS,Category=TOOLS Version 2.1 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.2 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.2 Access Database Upgrade
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.3 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.3 Access Database Upgrade
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.3.1 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.3.1 Access Database Upgrade
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.4 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.4 Access Database Upgrade
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.5/2.5.1 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.5/2.5.1 Access Database Upgrade
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.6 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.6 Access Database Upgrade
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESS Version 2.7 Access Database
Section=7,Family=V2,Category=ACCESSUPG Version 2.7 Access Database Upgrade
Family=V2,Category=SECURITYPRIVACY,Type=INFORMATIVE,Category=Specification Errata Version 2.x Common Audit Message

This is an informative document that proposes privacy and security policy relevant data to be exchanged among application systems via an audit message. It is meant to supplement existing system-specific security audits with healthcare application-specific requirements.

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Section=3,Section=5,Family=V3,Category=REGULATEDSTUDIES,Type=INFORMATIVE,wg=RCRIM Version 3 Implementation Guide: Regulated Product Submission, Release 1

The Version 3 Regulated Product Submission (RPS) Implementation Guide provides technical details (conformance criteria) on using the Regulated Product Submission (RPS) standard. The RPS standard provides a common means of exchange of documentation and status between product sponso...

Informative Regulated Clinical Research Information Management
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Category=SECURITYPRIVACY,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=SECURE Version 3: Role-based Access Control Healthcare Permission Catalog (RBAC)

The HL7 Version 3 Role-Based Access Control Healthcare Permission Catalog presents the ANSI-INCITS compliant healthcare permissions that may be assigned to licensed, certified and non-licensed healthcare personnel as well as healthcare consumers.  The Healthcare Permis...

Normative Security
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V3,Type=HARMONIZED,Category=Methodology Specifications,Category=Terminology Vocabulary Specifications

The HL7 standards define several different types of objects that implement various characteristics of vocabulary. (In HL7, encoded information is referred to as vocabulary.) Whereas other elements of the HL7 standards are primarily concerned with structure, vocabulary deals with conten...

Harmonized
Section=2,Section=6,Family=V2,Category=ENCODINGSYNTAX,Type=NORMATIVE,Category=ANSI-approved,wg=ITS XML Encoding Rules  (HL7 Version 2: XML Encoding Syntax, Release 1)

This document describes how to use  XML for Version 2.x (V2) messages. Even with the release of HL7 Version 3 (V3), HL7 V2.xml is needed to support the large base of existing systems that employ V2. This document does not replace the standard sequence oriented encoding rules ...

Normative Implementable Technology Specifications