The Remarkable Benefits Of HL7 Interface

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The Remarkable Benefits Of HL7 Interface

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Introduction

• Interoperability has been a top topic in the
  healthcare industry for decades. Even though the
  health data was managed with many advanced
  programming systems, the healthcare information
  exchange was full of data misinterpretation.
• This lack of interoperability costs the US
  healthcare system roughly 30 billion annually.
  So, the need for seamless data integration has
  been increased gradually to achieve true
  interoperability.

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Introduction(cont..)

• To simplify the process of data exchange, the
  non-profit organization, Health Level Seven
  International, developed HL7 standards. This
  article presents the importance and benefits of
  HL7 interface and the need for getting started
  with the recent substandard FHIR services.

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How HL7 Interface Is Unique?

• HL7 interface helps to bridge the gap between
  health IT applications and makes data sharing
  easier and more efficient when compared to other
  systems.
• Today, most healthcare providers make use of
  numerous healthcare applications for everything
  right from medical billing to maintaining patient
  information securely.

The real challenge is that communication between
these various types of software is very hard to
achieve. The other real-time problem arises when
two healthcare providers need to share health
information.
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How HL7 Interface Is Unique? (cont..)
To solve all these issues, HL7 providers set
standards and guidelines to help software vendors
and healthcare providers to exchange health
information securely.

• Here, the applications can make use of the data
  without any additional software for communication
  or send paper-based health records.
• Overall, the HL7 interface aims to make
  healthcare data sharing easier and secure, which
  ultimately reduces the practice administrative
  burden while also improve healthcare delivery.

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The Most Commonly Used HL7 Standards

• The important function of HL7 standards is to
  achieve interoperability between health
  information systems. It also makes sure whether
  all the documentations remain consistent across
  all the systems, even if some specific systems
  are part of different health care organizations.

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The most commonly used standards include

• Continuity of Care Document An XML markup
  standard that specifies the standards relating to
  encoding, structure, and the semantics of patient
  summary clinical documents to be exchanged.
• Structured Product Labeling An XML-formatted
  standard that defines human prescription drug
  labeling content.
• Version 2.x/3 Messaging Standard An
  interoperability specification for health and
  medical transactions.

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The most commonly used standards include (cont..)

1. Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) An XML
   markup standard that specifies standards relating
   to encoding, structure, and the semantics of
   clinical documents that are to be exchanged.
2. Clinical Context Object Workgroup A standard
   protocol that synchronizes disparate applications
   in real-time at the UI level.
3. HL7 Version 2 Product Suite Allows for data
   exchange between medical systems.

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Who Uses HL7 Standards?

• HL7 standards are used by hospitals, governmental
  healthcare institutions, healthcare software
  providers, laboratories, private clinics,
  pharmaceutical companies, and other medical
  facilities. It is most commonly used by

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1. Clinical Interface Specialists

• It includes the individuals who are entrusted
  with moving clinical information. They make tools
  to move such information and clinical
  applications that need to impart information to
  different systems. These users are responsible
  for moving clinical information between
  applications or healthcare providers.

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2. Government Healthcare Organizations

• It contains the individuals who are hoping to
  share information across numerous elements or in
  future information movement. In addition, these
  users are regularly hoping to move clinical
  information in another space that isnt covered
  by current interfaces and have the ability to
  embrace or mandate a messaging standard.

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3. Clinical Informaticists

• It involves the individuals who work inside the
  field of health informatics goes under this.
  Health informatics is the study of the rationale
  of medical services and how clinical information
  is created.
• Whats more, these users try to embrace or make a
  clinical ontologya kind of various leveled
  design of healthcare information (an information
  model) as well as the workflow (how things get
  done).

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The Importance Of HL7 Interface In Healthcare

• Interoperability plays a very important role in
  todays healthcare industry. As healthcare
  organizations continue to adapt to new and
  advanced software for automating processes, it is
  crucial to ensure seamless data integration
  between all systems.

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1. Integration With Other Systems

• In todays modern world, healthcare organizations
  make use of much-advanced software to run
  essential daily work processes. All these
  software are designed with different
  functionalities and features.
• The real challenge here is that some healthcare
  organizations use large and complex data systems
  and essentially operate using massive data while
  other organizations use more simple and basic
  solutions.
• The main purpose of the HL7 standard is to create
  a universal protocol so that any healthcare
  organization with proper permission can access
  and retrieve information from other healthcare
  software systems.

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2. Workflow Automation

• Although EHR systems are the most well-known and
  generally utilized solution for practice workflow
  automation, it is regularly difficult to
  appropriately impart between different EHRs and
  other information sources, including lab services
  and so on.
• Here, HL7 standards can help improve
  interoperability and send information whether the
  systems utilize older communication systems or
  current APIs. Also, HL7 can fill in as a device
  for work process automation if a clinic or
  clinical association doesnt have a comprehensive
  EHR.

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3. Collaboration

• As HL7 serves as an integral resource for storing
  and exchanging data, it has potential for
  worldwide use and collaboration. One of the
  continuous issues in the medical care industry
  includes cooperation between set up
  administrative establishments and the quickly
  developing health tech area alongside private
  practices.

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3. Collaboration (cont..)

• Health-Level-Seven standards make a bond together
  for all medical care players, including private
  clinics, labs, and healthcare software providers,
  empowering them to coordinate quicker and more
  proficiently. Moreover, HL7 protocols assume a
  vital part amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Benefits Of Hl7 Interface To Medical Practices

• 1. HL7 Improves Clinical Productivity
• Improved correspondence between various clinical
  associations takes into consideration the
  amassing of more significant information that can
  be utilized to improve the quality and
  productivity of a patients care. HL7 empowers
  quicker and smoother information exchange which
  permits clinicians to get up-to-date data and get
  a more extensive clinical point of view as more
  persistent records are accessible for access.

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2. HL7 Standards Eliminate Administrative Errors

• Through HL7, clinicians approach significant data
  from different sources and can be certain that
  all information is synchronized and applicable.
  With a decreased requirement for mentioning and
  filling out data physically, HL7 standards save
  time and guarantee higher exactness when managing
  patient records.

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3. HL7 Sets Out Open Doors For Innovation

• Apart from consistent information transmission
  between existing frameworks utilized by specific
  clinical organizations, the HL7 protocols
  additionally open more opportunities to explore
  different avenues regarding other software
  solutions. This not just makes a more extensive
  pool to look over yet, addition, empowers
  adaptability as far as tech solutions for
  healthcare organizations.

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HL7 V/s FHIR Why To Go With FHIR?

• Comparing HL7 V/s FHIR, Fast Healthcare
  Interoperability Resources is a new specification
  and the latest version of HL7 that can be used as
  a stand-alone data exchange standard. FHIR is the
  up-to-date framework of healthcare information
  exchange, specially designed based on the needs
  of digital interactions.
• FHIR could be the enhanced version when compared
  to other HL7 versions, to make the usage and
  sharing of electronic health records easier and
  more efficient.

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HL7 V/s FHIR Why To Go With FHIR? (cont..)

• The top benefits of implementing FHIR include
• Data Sharing made simple with FHIR
• Developer Friendly
• The specification is Free for Use
• Supports RESTful Architecture
• Fast and Easy to Implement
• Cost Savings Approach
• FHIR suits well for mobile

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HL7 FHIR The Future

• No wonder, the benefits of HL7 interface is
  enhancing every aspect of healthcare today. Here
  at CapMinds, we understand the real
  transformational phase the Healthcare industry is
  going through especially due to the outbreak of
  COVID-19. Our HL7 FHIR integration
  services create wonders for your healthcare
  practice.
• CapMinds HL7 interfaces ensure compliance to
  regulatory standards set by the U.S. Department
  of Health and Human Services (HHS), (HIPAA), and
  International Organization for Standardization.

If you are ready to make use of the benefits of
the HL7 interface to improve your practice
workflow, contact CapMinds today.
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