HL7 Publishes Implementation Guide to Extend HL7 Standard into Blood Banking
Monday April 23rd, 2012
Health Level Seven (HL7) International, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, and America’s Blood Centers, a national association of independent community blood centers, today announced that HL7 has published an implementation guide to extend the HL7 standard used by many hospitals into the blood center environment. The HL7 Orders and Observations Work Group approved the document during HL7’s 25th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting in September 2011. The blood banking specification implementation guide, informally called Blood Banking HL7 (BBHL7), was developed by a multidisciplinary project team headed by former Blood Systems CIO Jonathan Harber. The team was composed of standards experts, blood center IT and operations personnel, and representatives of blood establishment computer software (BECS) vendors.
