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HL7 Director Elections
There is a strong lineup of candidates for the HL7 director positions. The quality of candidates willing to stand for these positions reflects the growing importance of HL7 as the place where the long term standards that can release the power of healthcare information are maintained and developed.Open Source tools for Healthcare Application Integration
The Mapper Healthcare Tools are a set of Open Source tools for Healthcare Application Integration, built on the Eclipse Modelling Facility (EMF). They have generic facilities for healthcare systems integration, and specialised facilities for HL7 Version 2 and HL7 Version 3. These tools are close to launch on the HL7.org toolbase and was demonstrated at the June Technical Committee Working Meeting.Major investment in implementation tools for HL7v3messages
This large Canadian investment will help UK implementers work with HL7 V3 messages. Infoway is planning to develop a set of tools to aid Point of Service vendors in their adoption and implementation of pan-Canadian Standards, particularly HL7 version 3 messages.Co-Chair Election Results from May Working Group Meeting
The May Working Group Meeting was held in Kyoto, Japan. There were several Work group Co-chair elections and two HL7 UK members were successfully elected. Richard Kavanagh was elected as Co-chair for the Templates Work Group and Ian Townend was elected as Patient Care Co-chair.HL7 UK Board 2009-2010
The HL7 UK AGM was held on 7 April with the Technical Committee Working Meeting. Charlie Bishop has taken over as the HL7 UK Chair and Ann Wrightson has been appointed as the Technical Committee Chair.HL7 2008 Version 3 Normative Edition
In August 2008 Health Level Seven (HL7) released Version 3 Normative Edition 2008, a globally-defined suite of specifications based on HL7’s Reference Information Model (RIM). This suite provides a single source that allows implementers of V3 specifications to work with the set of messages, data types, and terminologies needed to build an implementation. The HL7 2008 V3 Normative Edition is available for HL7 UK Members to download.NHS Connecting for Health
NHS Connecting for Health make all message specifications, including business requirements documents available to HL7 UK Members in the document repository. Latest release Series 7 Message Implementation Manual v7.2.02 was released April 2008