HL7 Business Case Project Director: j Dr. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Technical Team Leads: Technical Team Leads: Maqbool Hussain Muhammad Afzal School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) National University of Science and Technology
Presentation Scheme Background ac g ou d HL7 Overview HL7 Overview HL7 HLH Project HLH Project
Case Study HL7 Business Case NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Background Around the world, vast amounts of healthcare information are exchanged on a daily basis information are exchanged on a daily basis. Standardized format is needed to ensure that the data is universally understood and organized. In order to achieve this, all healthcare information must be sent in a specialized healthcare language. The common language that has been developed to overcome these obstacles is HL7. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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HL7 Overview
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Introduction to HL7 Organization • Standard Developing Organization • ANSI accredited • Non‐for‐profit Volunteer organization
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• Develop specifications not software HL7 p provides standards for interoperability p y that improve p 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.
T To create the best and most widely used standards in healthcare. t th b t d t id l d t d d i h lth NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Benefits of HL7 Open ‐ it is a platform and technology independent standard independent standard Globally leading healthcare interoperability y g p y standard Widely accepted standard (above 93% hospitals uses HL7 in US) Reduces paper work, improves decision‐support NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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HL7 Use among Healthcare Providers *Health Information and Management Systems HIMMS* 1997 Leadership Survey Society
Usage Of Different Standards 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 0% 10% 0%
HL7 DICOM IEEE X12N SGML Other HL7
DICOM
IEEE
X12N
SGML
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HL7 Standards Version 2.x i Version 3.x 2.0 ((1988))
3.0 (2002)
2.1 (1990)
HL7 Version 2.x • ASCII‐based ASCII based • US‐based
2.2 (1996)
HL7 Version 3.x
2.3 (1997) 2.4 (2001)
• XML XML‐based b d • Localization Concept
2.5 (2003) 2.6 (2005)
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HL7 World Wide • •
Over 500 organizational members. Over 2200 total members around the world. 31 international affiliates Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Korea
Lithuania
Malaysia
New Z l d Zealand
Netherland
Poland
South Africa
Taiwan
Turkey
Uruguay
Mexico Switzerland
Spain
The United Kingdom h i d i d NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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HLH Project j
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Health Life Horizon Project Overview Standard
HL7 Domains
HL7 Version 3 HL7 Version 3
CDA
Laboratory Domain
Research
Patient P ti t Administration Domain
Pharmacy Domain
SOA for HL7
HLH
Ontology based HL7
Adapter Transportation
HL7 V2 & V3 Conversion Web Services
MLLP
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Project Objectives Industrial Objective
• Availability of open source HL7 version 3 Revenue generation from customization • Revenue generation from customization
Academic Objective
• Academia‐Industry Collaboration • HL7 Certification Training HL7 Certification Training
Research Objective
• Service Orientated HL7 • Ontology‐based HL7 Ontology‐based HL7
Human Resource Development Objective Development Objective
Other Objective
• IT professionals and researchers training on HL7 • Bunch of opportunities for young researchers Bunch of opportunities for young researchers • Produce HL7 experts around the world • HL7 affiliations HL7 affiliations
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Project Current Status • We are currently targeting Laboratory Domain. Health Care Domains
Laboratory
Patient Patient Administration
Billing and Billing and Accounting
Pharmacy
• The selection of next domain is depends upon requirements and urgency. q g y NUST School of Electrical Engineering and 13 Computer Science
Case Study Case Study CITILAB (Pakistan) CITILAB NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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CITILab Current Problems Mailing charges is cost overhead. Deliveries of reports are often delayed that leads to patient dissatisfaction. Lack of reliable delivery of reports: report results are dictated via phone which are often error prone. Manual entry at sender and receiver side is time consuming. Customers will not ready to attend the lab due to not entertainment g reports, p , which need outer lab communication. of urgent NUST School of Electrical Engineering and 15 Computer Science
What CITILab Requires The messages exchanged among different branches/collection points should deliver information of patients, test orders, test results and patient bills. The messages exchanged should be automated by eliminating human manual entry to the system. system
The information should be reliably communicated. The information should be confidential, even if interrupted by intruder during transmission, it should not be interpreted. The system should also be able to exchange messages with other authorized l b t i information i f ti systems. t laboratories NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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HL7 Application Scenario Hospital Management System HL7 V.3 Application
Data
Laboratory Information System HL7 V.3 Application
HL7 application will act as middleware used in same way for other Healthcare Systems. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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HL7 Business Case
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HL7 Business Case • HL7 is adapting all over the world due to – Globally leading healthcare interoperability standard – True, consistent and futuristic standard
• Doctors, Hospitals and other Healthcare centers are , p looking for HL7 to share information » But
• There is lack of HL7 experts around the world. • So opportunity doors are open to all of us. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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