Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a non-profit ANSI-accredited standards development organization that develops standards that provide for global health data interoperability. The 2.x versions of the standards are the most commonly used in the world. The HL7 community is organized in the form of a global organization (Health Level Seven International, Inc.) and country-specific affiliate organizations: The organizational structure of HL7 is as follows: HL7 International specifies a number of flexible standards, guidelines, and methodologies by which various healthcare systems can communicate with each other. Such guidelines or data standards are a set of rules that allow information to be shared and processed in a uniform and consistent manner. These data standards are meant to allow healthcare organizations to easily share clinical information. Theoretically, this ability to exchange information should help to minimize the tendency for medical care to be geographically isolated and highly variable. More information...
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