HL7 - National Library of Medicine Contract Information

The goal of this 2 year contract is to provide Government Agencies and the private sector with an implementation guide for the transmission of patient information between disparate electronic health record (EHR) systems.

This will be done in stages by leveraging existing work within HL7 to increase the usability of messaging standards. To make solutions available earlier, this project will take an iterative approach where each phase produces a usable working product. Successive phases will refine what is learned in the previous phase.

The EHR project will have at least 2 phases. Phase I will produce a solution that will allow implementation of information flow between EHR systems using existing formats in a standardized query-response message set. It will include an implementation of a secure transmission mechanism encompassing encryption, authentication, and transport verification. Phase II will be an expansion of Phase I with messages that enable more semantic interoperability and a richer query set.

EHR Phase I Information and Downloads

EHR Phase II Information and Downloads

HL7 NLM Phase II - Final Report

• 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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• NLM HL7 RFQ CHI Mapping Website
• HL7 NLM Interoperability Survey
• July 19th, 2005 Face to Face Meeting
• The Netherlands Info Session
• Orlando Info Session
• Vocabulary Files
• NLM Contract Announcement
• NLM Contract Task List is the current list of sub-contracts. We are currently seeking bids on these tasks.
  • NLM Technical Proposal
  • Process for Hiring Sub-Contractors
  • Previously awarded NLM subcontracts