HL7 Clinical Statements Course

This course provides an understanding of the HL7 Clinical Statement pattern. This pattern is the common part of the information model underlying all HL7 Version 3 standards concerned with representation and exchange of clinical information and is one of the keys to semantic interoperability.

Standards based on the Clinical Statement pattern include Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Provision of Care messages, Orders and Observation messages as well as many of the messages used in the UK by NHS Connecting for Health.

• Attendees will get more out of this half-day course if it is combined with one or more of our other courses for example:
  • Preceed this course with either the half-day HL7 Version 3 Introductory Course or the full-day HL7 Version 3 Foundation Course to provide a more detailed understanding of the modeling and implementation of HL7 Version 3 based messages.
  • Follow this course with our half-day HL7 TermInfo Course to gain a greater understanding of how termininolgies such as SNOMED CT^® can be work with HL7 Clinical Statement to meet requirements for effective decision support and retrieval.

Course Outline

• Background
  • What are Clinical Statements and where did they come from
• Clinical statement semantics
  • Different perspectives on the meaning of clinical information
  • Different representations of clinical information
  • Requirements for a common model
• Approaches to a common model
  • HL7 Version 3 RIM and Methodology
  • HL7 Clinical Statements
  • Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
  • CEN EN13606
• Guided tour of Clinical Statements
  • The current model
  • Known issues and edge cases
  • Terminology issues - the need for HL7 TermInfo
  • Current status and next steps