HL7 Offers Free Ambassador Webinar—HL7 Version 2: Electronic Lab Reporting to Public Health

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, will present a complimentary Ambassador webinar on the HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health on Wednesday, July 13 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT.

The HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health supports the submission of reportable laboratory results to public health. This implementation guide was recently named under the federal regulation in the United States to support meaningful use requirements. This webinar will show how public health is using laboratory data today and how the implementation guide addresses meaningful use requirements as well as state and local laboratory reporting requirements. The webinar will also provide information on the following:

• Current status of public health adoption of the implementation guide
• Tools developed by public health to aid adoption of the implementation guide
• Lessons learned from current adopters of the guide
• Future updates to the guide

Austin Kreisler, technical fellow at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), chair of the HL7 Technical Steering Committee, co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Work Group and past co-chair of the HL7 Orders and Observations Work Group, will be presenting the webinar. Mr. Kreisler is the principal author of the HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health as well as a co-author of the HL7 Version 3 Laboratory Result standard.

To register for this free webinar, please visit http://www.hl7.org/events/ambassador072011/. HL7 Ambassadors present standardized presentations about HL7 as speaker volunteers. They are available to present at local, regional or national conferences. Please contact HL7 at +1 (734) 677-7777 if you would like to schedule an HL7 Ambassador for an upcoming event.

About Health Level Seven International (HL7)
Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven International is the global authority for healthcare information interoperability and standards with affiliates established in more than 30 countries. HL7 is a non-profit, ANSI accredited standards development 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 more than 2,300 members represent approximately 500 corporate members, which include more than 90 percent of the information systems vendors serving healthcare. HL7 collaborates with other standards developers and provider, payer, philanthropic and government agencies at the highest levels to ensure the development of comprehensive and reliable standards and successful interoperability efforts.

HL7’s endeavors are sponsored, in part, by the support of its benefactors: Abbott; Accenture; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Duke Translational Medicine Institute; Epic; European Medicines Agency; the Food and Drug Administration; GE Healthcare Information Technologies; GlaxoSmithKline; IBM; Intel Corporation; InterSystems Corporation; Kaiser Permanente; Lockheed Martin; McKesson Provider Technology; Microsoft Corporation; NICTIZ National Healthcare; Novartis; Oracle Corporation; Partners HealthCare System, Inc.; Pfizer, Inc.; Philips Healthcare; Quest Diagnostics Inc.; Siemens Healthcare; Thomson Reuters; the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Health System; and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Numerous HL7 Affiliates have been established around the globe including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Uruguay.

For more information, please visit: www.HL7.org