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HL7 International Ballots

The January ballot cycle ran from 5 December 2011 to 9 January 2012 and the responses to these ballots will be addressed at the next WGM  in San Antonio, TX, USA 15-20 January 2012. View the UK responses to this ballot...>>.

A contingent of HL7 UK Members are traveling to San Antonio to participate in the January WGM (view list) and there is a meeting scheduled for Sunday 15 January from 6 - 7 pm in the Pecan Room. 

The candidate standards/draft standards for trial use and other documents in the announcement are associated with the following standard classifications:

  • Arden Syntax
  • Clinical Document Architecture (CDA ®), Release 2
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Health Level Seven International Governance
  • Service-Aware Interoperability Framework
  • Version 2 Messaging
  • Version 3 Messaging
  • Version 3 Specifications, Infrastructure and Foundation

For the full announcement, please download the PDF from the following link:
http://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/ballots/2012JAN/announcements/Formation%20of%20Ballot%20Pools%20for%20January%202012%20Ballot%20Cycle.pdf 

Please note that several of the document pools listed are contingent upon the completion of related reconciliation activities, in accordance with HL7 policy. In addition, the final names and/or ballot levels of several pools are contingent upon Technical Steering Division or HL7 Technical Chair approval. As a reminder, all new document names are subject to approval and every document put forward as a DSTU ballot is subject to review.

The HL7 Ballot Desktop for voting on candidate standards and documents can be found at http://www.hl7.org/ctl.cfm?action=ballots.home.

HL7 UK Voting Record

To view how HL7 UK voted and have voted in previous ballots please visit our Voting Record...>>

View the HL7.org Publishing Schedule for 2012...>>

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