Health Level Seven International (HL7) is the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in over 55 countries.

HL7 UK promotes the use of HL7 standards, such as HL7 FHIR® in the UK. Join now to influence the way in which UK-specific versions are developed.

HL7 produces the world’s most widely used standards for healthcare interoperability. Most of the leading suppliers use and support the development of HL7 standards across six continents.

HL7 FHIR® is the current strategic technology for new interfaces from NHS England.

HL7 UK is now the main forum for discussion of interoperability between healthcare IT systems. Members include:

Central and policy organisations such as NHS England and Digital Health and Care Wales
NHS Trusts and PCN’s
Most of the largest suppliers of primary and secondary healthcare IT systems
Middleware suppliers
Consultants – from single-handers to huge multinationals

Why join HL7UK?

Events and training

Keep up-to-date with developments and enhance your skills

Free attendance & early registration access to any HL7 UK meetings that would otherwise have a charge. This includes our biannual Interoperability Forums which are a great place for networking and updates; members also receive access to the materials and presentations from the day, as well as any previous events
Reduced rates for our HL7 UK run training such as our UK based FHIR Overview Course
Discounted rates for attending HL7 International Working Group Meetings
Access to the HL7 UK e-mail lists and the full HL7 UK website as well as members-only access to the HL7 International website. This ensures that you are kept informed of any key developments of FHIR and other UK based interoperability matters

Profile and networking

Highlighting your commitment to FHIR to the rest of the community and finding partners

Addition to our HL7 UK Members online directories, both on our public website and also within the members area on the HL7 International Confluence site
The opportunity to manage your business profile within the HL7 Confluence Community
Registry to raise your profile. You will also have visibility of what other organisations are doing, which helps find existing solutions, allows for a great learning opportunity and helps avoid duplication of projects
Rights to use of our logo on any of your communications and marketing materials

Advancing FHIR

Contribute to the development and implementation of FHIR

Ability to participate fully in the HL7 UK ballots. Participation means that you can influence UK Core Profiles and Implementation Guides (IGs)
We seek input from our members, and engage with them on their priorities so that we can feed this information back into central NHS Bodies and suppliers
The ability to ask any general interoperability standard related questions to our Board and Technical Chair
Any OIDs needed for your projects issued without charge

“HISL’s membership of HL7 UK provides us with a ‘one-stop-shop’ for keeping in touch with IT initiatives in the NHS as well as helping us maintain our expertise in clinical messaging.”

Steve Carey , Steve Carey, Health Information Systems UK

“We benefit from HL7 membership at many levels. Firstly there is access to the standards themselves, but being able to participate in the development of standards and the discussions around their use is a massive aid to understanding how to make practical use of them. It is worth bearing in mind that HL7 is more than just a messaging standard – it is nowadays about all aspects of healthcare information system architectures. HL7 is also a great “place” for networking. It is the main forum – UK and world – where the experts in this domain come together to share experiences, views and ideas.”

David Bowen, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust

Organisation

Benefactor

Personal

Student

There are four classes of membership – Check out the membership details.

membership options

£948+VAT

Gives the organisation the right to download HL7 documents for use within the organisation, to send as many people as desired to HL7 UK meetings, and cast up to three votes on behalf of the organisation.

The fact the organisation is a member can be used in correspondence and advertising, along with the HL7 UK logo.

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£1896+VAT

Gives all the benefits of Organisation membership, but also displays the organisation’s logo on the HL7 UK home page.

The fact the organisation is a Benefactor can be used in correspondence and advertising.

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£190+VAT

Entitles the person named to download and use HL7 documents for personal use only, to attend HL7 UK meetings and cast one vote.

Note that the documents must not be shown or copied to any other person or organisation, neither must they be used for any commercial purpose; to do so is a breach of the membership conditions.

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£30+VAT

Entitles the person named to download and use HL7 documents for personal use only and to attend HL7 UK meetings.

Students who are undertaking healthcare or information technology related courses of study may apply for Student Membership of HL7 UK. Student Membership shall be available at the discretion of the Management Board.

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