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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Health Level 7 and Medical Coding
What is Health Level 7 or HL7? Well, in the health care sector we know standards are very important. The American National standards Institute (ANSI) has accredited many Standards Developing Organizations and HL7 is one of such international community of healthcare subject experts and IT scientists who create standards for the exchange, management and integration of the EHR (Electronic Health Record). This is a not-for-profit volunteer organization that promotes the increased use of standard within and between the health organizations. As a result of such implementation everyone gets benefited and it increases the effectiveness of the total health care.
HL7 is more about clinical and administrative data. The term "level seven" refers to the highest level of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - the application level. Historically there was no proper integration / communication between a health care management information system and the electronic medical records. Using the process of coding of medical records for claiming, to government and commercial insurers, it is mandatory that all information must be referenced or copied into from a physician authored document.
Today's XML documents that are compliant with Health Level Seven's (HL7) clinical document architecture (CDA) do provide the missing link between healthcare information management (HIM) and the electronic medical record (EMR) domains, improving the processes of medical coding and abstracting, and provides for great accuracy during the insurance claims process enabling quick reimbursement.
More details on HL7 is at http://www.hl7.org/about/hl7about.htm
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posted by Outsource Strategies International @ 8:16 PM
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