HL7
Health Level Seven International (HL7) is the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in over 55 countries.
What does HL7 do?
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 Digital.
Influence the way in which UK-specific versions are developed. HL7 UK is now the main forum for discussion of interoperability between healthcare IT systems. Members include:
- Central and policy organisations such as NHS Digital and NHS Wales Informatics Service
- NHS Trusts and PCGs
- Royal Colleges
- 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 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
- 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 closed e-mail lists and password protected areas of the HL7 UK website and members-only access to the main HL7 US 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
- Ability to add your IGs to the HL7 UK FHIR Community Implementation Guidance Project 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
- Being part of a wider, and well-known community focused on developing interoperability within healthcare
- 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.
If all or part of your business concerns healthcare IT system interoperability, you’re not properly informed unless you’re a member of HL7 UK. Have a look at the HL7 UK Member Testimonials.
Membership Options
There are four classes of membership, Organisation, Benefactor, Personal and Student – Check out the membership details.