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Transcript of HL7 User Group Switzerland
September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)
HL7 User Group Switzerland
September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)
HL7 User Group Switzerland
• HL7 User Group Switzerland (HL7 UGCH) constituted on 17th August 2000.
• Objective:Promotion, distribution and further development of the HL7 standard in Swiss health care.
• Original representation:–Users (hospitals): 4.–Vendors (HIS/LIMS, diagnostics): 8.
• Contacts: –President: Ingo de Vries ([email protected])
–Vice-president: Andrzej J. Knafel ([email protected])
September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)
HL7 User Group Switzerland
• Organizational status of HL7 UGCH:– Established: constitution, regulations and operation
procedures.
– Agreed upon financial aspects.
– Started implementing infrastructure: board of directors, bank account, mail address, web site, membership applications, etc.
– Proposal of first project: „HL7 implementation guide for Switzerland.“
September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)
HL7 User Group Switzerland
• Healthcare information systems in Switzerland*– HIS/LIS:
• ~5 major vendors. • ~300 installations.• Vendors partially Swiss partially from Germany and France.
– Physician office software: • 2 major vendors.
– Situation in healthcare informatics standards:• Generally: low grade of standardization• UN/EDIFACT (financial transactions, but w/o attachments)• DICOM • ASTM E.1394 (laboratory)• CEN TC 251 (used implementations not known)• HL7 (see next page)
– Goverment program to establish nationwide EPR until 2003* Inofficial iformation based on opinions of HL7 UGCH members.
September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)
HL7 User Group Switzerland
• HL7 situation in Swiss healthcare*– Minimum 7 major hospitals (including most opinion
leaders) commited to HL7 and are in various implementation stages.
– Current focus is on Patient Data and ADT messages transferred within clinics and among clinics and hospitals.
– Later planned:• Financial transactions
• Orders and observations
• Master files
– Significant potential in connecting Physician Offices (GP).
* Inofficial iformation based on opinions of HL7 UGCH members.