Health Level Seven International ,HL7,
Health Level Seven International創建于1987年,是健康保健信息互操作性和標準的全球性權威機構,在三十多個國家設有分支機構。HL7是一家非贏利的、經ANSI認證的標準開發組織,致力于為支持臨床實踐和健康服務管理、實施和評估的電子化信息的交換、集成、共享和檢索提供全方位的框架和相關標準。HL7的會員超過2,300人,代表近500個企業會員,這些企業會員包含了服務于健康保健的信息系統供應商的90%以上。HL7與其他標準開發商和提供商、支付方、慈善及政府機關開展最高水平的協作,以確保開發全方位的、可靠的標準和互操作性努力的成功。
About HL7
Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7's 2,300+ members include approximately 500 corporate members who represent more than 90% of the information systems vendors serving healthcare.
HL7 Vision
To create the best and most widely used standards in healthcare.
HL7 Mission
HL7 provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity and enhance knowledge transfer among all of our stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendor community, fellow SDOs and patients. In all of our processes we exhibit timeliness, scientific rigor and technical expertise without compromising transparency, accountability, practicality, or our willingness to put the needs of our stakeholders first.
HL7 - What Does it Mean?
"Level Seven" refers to the seventh level of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) seven-layer communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - the application level. The application level interfaces directly to and performs common application services for the application processes. Although other protocols have largely superseded it, the OSI model remains valuable as a place to begin the study of network architecture.
HL7 Strategic Initiatives
The HL7 Strategic Initiatives document is a business plan for our products and services and was designed specifically to meet the business needs of our members and stakeholders. Derived from collaborative efforts with our members, government and non-government agencies and other standards development organizations, the Strategic Initiatives are comprised of five high-level organizational strategies that are supported by a detailed tactical plan with clearly defined objectives, milestones, and metrics for success.