Pentaho Addresses Healthcare Data Challenges with HL7 Support

Pentaho Corporation, the business analytics company providing power for technologists and rapid insight for users, today announced native support for the Health Level Seven International (HL7) standard with Pentaho Business Analytics. The Pentaho HL7 connector enables hospitals, group practices, labs, imaging facilities, pharmacies and payers to standardize their healthcare information electronically across organizations within a healthcare system in compliance with this international health information data exchange standard.

The Pentaho HL7 capability is already being leveraged at St. Antonius Hospital in the Netherlands. The Hospital is using the HL7 capabilities to standardize data from all of the departmental systems and make the information available for analytics and visualization across multiple disciplines, such as administration, cardiology and lung research...