International HL7 Implementations

International HL7 implementations is a collection of known implementations of the HL7 Interoperability standard. These do not necessarily refer to cross-border health information systems.

HL7 Australia is the local affiliate of the international HL7 organisation and is an open, volunteer-based, not-for-profit organisation that supports the needs of HL7 users in Australia.

It is the accredited national affiliate of HL7.org and has local responsibility for a range of core activities including the distribution and licensing of HL7 standards materials, education and participation in international HL7 standards development.

HL7 Australia members are active participants in the various Standards Australia IT-014 health informatics standards sub-committees and working groups which are working on HL7 standards development and implementation in Australia.

The HL7 New Zealand website outlines the following commitments.

The user group shall be established on the following basic principles:

Functions of HL7 New Zealand

Prince Edward Island, a province within Canada is the only instance of a province-wide attempt at implementing the HL7 interoperability standard. It has been standards compliant with the following characteristics of HL7:

The main user of HL7 in Mexico is the Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS). IMSS have been developing V3 messaging for three years and currently have 19 active messages across 9 domains with a further 24 messages currently in development. They are using a modified version of Veteran’s VISTA in combination with middleware which transforms from VISTA’s native V2 messages to V3 and vice versa. There is also a joint project in progress to develop an HL7 Gateway with Microsoft. It is envisaged that this project will enable systems to exchange HL7 messages with IMSS without concerning themselves with HL7 translation. HL7 Mexico has also been working to make government agencies such as the Ministry of Health aware of the importance of HL7 in exchanging healthcare information. As well as improving external links, HL7 Mexico has also been working to improve its internal processes and encourage new membership across the board.

The HL7 standards development organisation is based in America and oversees the development of the HL7 standard. HL7 current work programme includes:

China has so far tested HL7 messaging standards in order to ensure interoperability. In the Guangdong province, government has gone as far as to mandate that developers of health information systems utilize the HL7 standard to transfer patient clinical information.

The Chinese Hospital Management Association (CHIMA) manages the role of the Basic Data Set Standards project, of which its working groups have accomplished 1976 data items, some of which reference the HL7 standard.

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