An der Schanz 1
50735 Köln
Germany
Phone: +49 700 77776767
Fax: +49 700 77776761
http://www.hl7.de
info@hl7.de
Company Contacts
Department/ Name Address
Vorsitzender: Thomas Norgall An der Schanz 1, 50735 Köln, Tel.: 0700 7777 6767, Fax: 0700 7777 6761
info@hl7.de
Company Figures
Year of foundation 1992
Area of business Communication and Information Technology
Services and Publications
Language: German Language: English Company Profile
HL7 Benutzergruppe in Deutschland e.V.
What is HL7?
Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions. Health Level Seven’s domain is clinical and administrative data.
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, Health Level Seven is like most of the other SDOs in that it is a not-for-profit volunteer organization. Its members– providers, vendors, payers, consultants, government groups and others who have an interest in the development and advancement of clinical and administrative standards for healthcare—develop the standards. Like all ANSI-accredited SDOs, Health Level Seven adheres to a strict and well-defined set of operating procedures that ensures consensus, openness and balance of interest. A frequent misconception about Health Level Seven (and presumably about the other SDOs) is that it develops software. In reality, Health Level Seven develops specifications, the most widely used being a messaging standard that enables disparate healthcare applications to exchange keys sets of clinical and administrative data.
Members of Health Level Seven are known collectively as the Working Group, which is organized into technical committees and special interest groups. The technical committees are directly responsible for the content of the Standards. Special interest groups serve as a test bed for exploring new areas that may need coverage in HL7’s published standards. A list of the technical committees and special interest groups as well as their missions, scopes and current leadership is available on this web site.