HL7 User Group Switzerland

September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)

HL7 User Group Switzerland



• HL7 User Group Switzerland (HL7 UGCH) constituted on 17th August 2000.

• Objective:Promotion, distribution and further development of the HL7 standard in Swiss health care.

• Original representation:–Users (hospitals): 4.–Vendors (HIS/LIMS, diagnostics): 8.

• Contacts: –President: Ingo de Vries ([email protected])

–Vice-president: Andrzej J. Knafel ([email protected])

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• Organizational status of HL7 UGCH:– Established: constitution, regulations and operation

procedures.

– Agreed upon financial aspects.

– Started implementing infrastructure: board of directors, bank account, mail address, web site, membership applications, etc.

– Proposal of first project: „HL7 implementation guide for Switzerland.“



• Healthcare information systems in Switzerland*– HIS/LIS:

• ~5 major vendors. • ~300 installations.• Vendors partially Swiss partially from Germany and France.

– Physician office software: • 2 major vendors.

– Situation in healthcare informatics standards:• Generally: low grade of standardization• UN/EDIFACT (financial transactions, but w/o attachments)• DICOM • ASTM E.1394 (laboratory)• CEN TC 251 (used implementations not known)• HL7 (see next page)

– Goverment program to establish nationwide EPR until 2003* Inofficial iformation based on opinions of HL7 UGCH members.



• HL7 situation in Swiss healthcare*– Minimum 7 major hospitals (including most opinion

leaders) commited to HL7 and are in various implementation stages.

– Current focus is on Patient Data and ADT messages transferred within clinics and among clinics and hospitals.

– Later planned:• Financial transactions

• Orders and observations

• Master files

– Significant potential in connecting Physician Offices (GP).

* Inofficial iformation based on opinions of HL7 UGCH members.

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HL7 User Group Switzerland