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Health Level Seven (HL7®)

Health Level Seven Conformance Statements

Health Level Seven (HL7®) is a American National Standards Institute accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDO) operating in the healthcare arena. Since its inception, HL7® has specified standards for a large number of application areas. HL7® standards cover generic application fields such as patient administration, patient care, order entry, results reporting, document and financial management. In addition to that, HL7® addresses the different clinical specialties like laboratory medicine, diagnostic imaging and clinical decision support.

Currently there are 3 active Product Families: V2 (Version2), CDA® (Clinical Document Architecture) and FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). Additionally, within FHIR®, HL7® provides a specification for context synchronization among applications called FHIRcast.

The HL7® Conformance Statements specify the details about the implementation of HL7® standards for specific products.

Further information on HL7® is available at:

HL7®, and FHIR® are the registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International, and their use of these trademarks does not constitute an endorsement by HL7.