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National Library of Medicine (NLM) Contract

EHR Phase I Demonstration

Purpose: A demonstration of the proof-of-concept developed as part of the Health Level Seven (HL7) National Library of Medicine (NLM) contract. Refer to HL7-NLM EHR Project Description for background information. This proof-of-concept is a short-term solution that will allow implementation of information flow between EHR systems using existing formats in a standardized query-response message set. It includes an implementation of a secure transmission mechanism encompassing encryption, authentication, and transport verification.
Expected audience: Real world implementer of interoperability between inter-agency electronic health record (EHR) systems
Date/Time: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3-4:30 pm EDT:
Web Conferencing: Refer to your WebEx registration e-mail for the URL and password
Audio Conferencing: 913-643-5111 Access code: 746115#
Agenda:
  1. Introductions
  2. Review HL7-NLM project objectives
  3. Conduct demonstration
    1. Creating and sending initial query
    2. Viewing available documents
    3. Selecting one for retrieval, requesting that document
    4. Viewing requested document in local browser
  4. CDA creation and database insertion (on the server)
  5. Implementation guide and issues
    1. Client talks to server
    2. Handling the received document
    3. Viewer
    4. Limitations of message handling
  6. Q&A

More information regarding this contract can be found on the HL7 NLM contract web site (http://www.hl7.org/nlmcontract).

HL7 Standards Development in Relation to
Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) and Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Contract No. HHSN276200443505C ADB Contract No. N01-LM-4-3505
More details and downloadable materials on these two projects are available at EHR project and also at Vocabulary project web pages.

Management team:
  • EHR Co-leaders: Bill Braithwaite, Ed Hammond and Mark Shafarman
  • EHR project management: Caroline Harrison and Mark Shafarman
  • Vocabulary Co-leaders: Stan Huff and Chris Chute
  • Vocabulary project management: Sarah Ryan
  • HL7's NLM Contract Officer: Mark McDougall

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